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Ty's Take Politics moves slow in these mountains, which is probably why nobody's in any hurry to settle the term-limits question—Conejos County commissioners are kicking it to the voters and calling it democracy, which it is, though it also sounds like a way to
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Ty's Take Primary season down here always feels like watching your neighbors decide who gets to carry their mail to the courthouse—half the valley shows up, half stays home, and everybody's got an opinion about it anyway. The returns from both counties are still preliminary,
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Ty's Take Stage One fire ban over in Alamosa County means the dry wind is already talking, and it's only April. Up here in Conejos we're not quite there yet, but anybody who's watched a spring blow through the valley knows how
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Ty's Take The commissioners meeting Monday on DA term limits won't make headlines much beyond county lines, but it's the kind of thing that matters more the smaller your town gets—when everybody knows the prosecutor, when you've seen the same faces
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Ty's Take Nobody wants to read about a child abuse case on a Tuesday morning, but this is Conejos County, and we don't look away from what happens in our own backyard. Mari Felix's guilty plea is the kind of hard local news that
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Ty's Take A couple hundred miles of high valley gets easier to understand from thirty thousand feet, which is what Ecoflight and the San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council figured out for Public Lands Day last week—you can talk all you want about watershed and sagebrush health and
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Ty's Take Fire season's here whether we're ready or not, and most of the valley's under restrictions now—which means anybody thinking about burning slash piles or clearing land needs to check before they strike a match, because one dry spark in
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Ty's Take Two folks walked away from a plane down in South Fork this week with nothing worse than scrapes—the kind of luck that doesn't come around often enough in small mountain valleys where weather turns on a dime and help is always twenty minutes
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Ty's Take Nobody in this county wakes up wanting to read about a child abuse case, but here we are—Mari Felix pleading guilty to two counts is the kind of local news that sits heavy in a small place where everybody knows everybody. The court system did
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Ty's Take There's something about watching the Class of 2026 walk across that stage that reminds you why towns like this hold on, even when the economics are mean and the young people are scarce. These kids grew up in a place where water rights matter
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Ty's Take Three nights of good music rolling through the valley—Walt Wilkins down in Antonito, then Kelloff's road show up in Alamosa, then whatever's coming next at Society Hall—says something about where we are right now. In a county where the land
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Ty's Take A plane down east of South Fork, a local band coming home to Society Hall, and a couple of reminders that this valley's kids are dealing with things that don't show up on a weather report—that's the news moving