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Ty's Take Highway 160 getting torn up for a week starting next Monday is the kind of thing that sounds like a minor inconvenience until you're sitting in your truck watching dust settle on both sides of the construction zone, watching the summer traffic back up
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Ty's Take There's a body found in the mountains, a kid earning scholarship money, somebody hiring folks for next fall, and the usual late-summer mix of community life playing out on the plateau—which is exactly how it should be when you're two
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Ty's Take There's something honest about a small town buying a new fire truck. It's not glamorous—nobody runs it as their lead story in the big papers—but it means the city council looked at the numbers, understood what they had was aging
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Ty's Take Eight people in a boat hitting a rock on the Meramec is the kind of accident that happens fast and leaves you grateful for whoever got them out of the water, but it's also a reminder that this time of year—late summer, when
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Ty's Take When your fire department and emergency crews run a drill and find out what works and what doesn't before the real thing happens, that's the kind of Sunday afternoon that pays dividends on a Wednesday. Texas County's volunteer responders did
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Ty's Take Sam Neill's death hits different when you're sitting in a town where a lot of folks grew up watching movies as their ticket out—or at least somewhere else for a couple hours. The man had a long career and a good
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Ty's Take The water story never stops being the water story up here, and this week the Rio Grande SUN's piece on our mayordomos—those men and women who manage the acequias that have kept these valleys alive for four hundred years—reminds us why. You
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Ty's Take Radius Recycling's exit leaves a hole that matters more than it might seem from the outside—we've lost not just a recycling option but a business that was trying to build infrastructure in a state where most chains see us as a
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Ty's Take Fire season's never really left the San Luis Valley—it just gets quieter in the shoulder months before flaring back up. The Schrader Creek burn near Del Norte is still small at nine acres, which is the kind of number that means something got
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Ty's Take The county commissioners are putting DA term limits on the ballot this fall, which tells you something about how this office has worn some people down over the years—and how fractured things have gotten between the board and whoever sits in that seat. Meanwhile, down
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Ty's Take When the heat index climbs past 110, you start seeing the real backbone of this county—the folks who have to keep working anyway. Cattle don't stop needing water because it's dangerous out there, and neither do the crews at the stockyards
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Ty's Take Water's always been the real mayor around here, and this week's story about T or C's senior rights on the Rio Grande is a reminder that whoever controls the tap controls the future—which means our city council's