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Ty's Take Buena Vista's got two mayoral candidates ready to make their pitch, and Salida's got the theater pulling together a show about what "home" means while the Housing Authority works on making sure anybody can actually afford one around here anymore.
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Ty's Take The Swiss Roll Fire sitting at 36 percent contained is a reminder that we're not out of the woods yet, not by a long shot. Yes, fall is coming and the monsoons did their part, but one dry week in September and we'
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Ty's Take Fall is the season when this valley shows its muscle, and you can see it in three different ways this week. Adams State's teams are in the thick of their schedules now, which means the college is pumping money and energy back into town
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Ty's Take Housing numbers out of Chaffee County tell you everything you need to know about what's happening in this valley right now. The spread between what places are listing for and what people around here can actually afford to pay has become the kind of
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Ty's Take Fall's turning the aspen gold up on those forest roads, and come Saturday the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is marking the equinox the old way, with Mabon and a potluck that'll probably draw half the county. There's something worth noticing in
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Ty's Take Fire season's knocking early again. The Schrader Creek fire over near Del Norte on the Rio Grande National Forest is still small at nine acres, but that's the kind of start that keeps folks around here watching the weather reports like it&
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Ty's Take The letters coming in this week hit a nerve that runs through this whole valley, and they're worth reading straight through. One farmer's talking about the squeeze, another's promoting Give Like Dolly Day, and meanwhile Buena Vista's trying
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Ty's Take A slow news day around here is usually when you know things are working. The food pantry network is doing the hard labor that doesn't make headlines until somebody goes hungry, the geothermal greenhouse people are still finding ways to use what comes up
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Ty's Take The Republicans are hosting a Liberty Rally, which tells you something about where the conversation sits in Alamosa County right now. These events tend to draw the same crowd, energize the same people, and leave everyone else wondering if anybody's actually listening to anybody
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Ty's Take Two towns sharing one valley sometimes means sharing one mess, and Salida and Buena Vista are learning that the hard way when it comes to police work. The joint SWAT arrangement falling apart isn't surprising, really, because these kind of handshake deals work fine
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Ty's Take Colorfest is back for Labor Day weekend, which means the sky over Pagosa will fill with hot air balloons while the rest of us fill our bellies and remember why we stick around a place this beautiful, even when the tourists triple our population and the
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Ty's Take Primary day came and went in Conejos County, which means the real sorting starts now. Preliminary numbers are in, but anybody who's watched elections around here knows this valley doesn't settle easy or fast, and the work of counting and recounting touches