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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how a small town fills its calendar when the snow's gone and the season shifts. A stress management piece for seniors, a summer reading push, a spiritual group meeting—none of it makes the state wire, but
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Ty's Take Road work on the pass is never great timing, but May's when it has to happen—weather window closes fast up there. What catches the eye this week, though, is how many of these stories circle back to the same thing: people in this
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Ty's Take The pattern's becoming hard to miss: fire code, hydrant pressure, reconstruction scrutiny, and now wildfire resilience standards all landing on the table at once. That's not coincidence in a town ringed by National Forest where the last big burn is still fresh
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Ty's Take The legislature packed up and headed home last week after one hundred twenty days of trying to square circles—water rights, data centers, the whole mess of what Colorado's supposed to become. Down here we've got our own version of that same
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Ty's Take You can read between the lines on a slow news day—the water conservancy talking grants and ranch management, the county patting itself on the back for a 3.2 percent unemployment rate, the school district bringing in a new middle principal. These are the stories
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Ty's Take Between the insurance stories, the housing law coverage, and those end-of-life education pieces, what's really surfacing this week is how many of us are trying to plan for something—whether that's keeping a roof over our heads when carriers bail,
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Ty's Take Josh Sanchez coming in as the new principal at Pagosa High is the kind of institutional stability this town needs right now, especially with wildfire season bearing down and half the county's attention split between tourism dollars and survival logistics. A new leader at
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Ty's Take Mother's Day falls different out here than it does in places where you can order flowers and have them waiting on a doorstep by noon. Up in Archuleta County, a lot of the women we're thinking about this Sunday are the ones
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Ty's Take There's something worth sitting with in today's news, the kind of thing that doesn't make the front page but maybe should. We've got our library doing good work expanding what kids can do and learn, a blood drive
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Ty's Take One of our own is headed into the national spotlight with the Entrepreneur of Impact Competition, and that's worth noting in a town that's spent the last decade figuring out what comes after the boom-and-bust cycles of tourism and timber.
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Ty's Take You can read a lot into the infrastructure moves stacking up this month—the highway reconstruction on 160, the town taking on sewer line replacements, EMS officially essential, Aspen House finally breaking ground after eleven years. These aren't glamorous stories, but they're
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Ty's Take Lot of moving parts this week—the county's hammering out its comprehensive plan while the state's throwing money at opioids and disaster recovery, the Forest Service is running saws in the ranger district, and U.S. 160 is still a work in