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Ty's Take A firefighter from the Knowles Fire has died, and that loss sits heavy on all of us who watched that fire tear through the valley last summer. Three others have already been lost to injuries from that same blaze, which means the real cost of that
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Ty's Take The geothermal study making news this week touches on something that matters more than most of us probably think about it. Our valley sits on real heat, the kind that could power things and bring money in, and we've also got hot springs that
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Ty's Take The fair's coming, which means dust, kids on mutton, and that particular smell of livestock and funnel cake that tells you summer's still got some living left in it. Meanwhile, the Chamber's moving into the Community Center and the Riverside
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Ty's Take The city council's water talk comes at an interesting moment, with the Arkansas running high and the valley still mostly quiet before summer really cranks up. But anybody who's paid attention to the front range squeeze, or watched property values climb around
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Ty's Take The dog attack at Riverside Park during FIBArk—a golden retriever killed by another dog in broad daylight, in front of families—is the kind of thing that catches a river town off guard. We're used to the chaos of festival week, the rafters
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Ty's Take The ballot delivery fight and the essay club meeting on the same page tells you something about where we're at—half the town worried the mail won't get there, half convinced democracy itself is on life support, and everybody else probably just
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing in how a small town shows itself on a slow July news day—not in the noise, but in what people choose to celebrate and support. A filmmaker still chasing horizons at eighty, a kid earning a scholarship, county clerks
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Ty's Take There's a peculiar moment every summer when this valley catches fire—literally and figuratively—and people show their true colors. The Aspen Acres fire pushing toward fifty percent containment is the real story here, along with South Arkansas Fire Protection District doing what it
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Ty's Take Chaffee County's got itself a classic late-summer moment coming up—the Fair and Rodeo rolling in Friday with all the dust and noise and genuine community that still matters out here, while upstream in Buena Vista they're wrestling with which historic
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Ty's Take Both valleys are betting on water this week—Buena Vista chasing grant money for a new well while the state keeps stocking the ponds and the commissioners hash over what the deer are doing to the landscape. That's the rhythm up here: you'
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Ty's Take There's something worth holding onto in that picture of Buena Vista dusting off old time capsules alongside the new ones they're burying for the next generation—the idea that a town knows itself by looking back before it looks ahead. We'
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Ty's Take The county's having one of those weeks where you can read the whole stack and still feel like you're watching separate movies—fire crews managing the Aspen Acres evacuation zone, the landfill burning for reasons nobody knows yet, folks down south getting