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Ty's Take You can drive these high roads a long time before you see another soul, which is maybe why folks up here forget how fast things can happen—how quick a mistake becomes a record, how a bad afternoon turns into something the whole valley hears about
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Ty's Take That fence running through La Sierra's been a sore point long enough that most folks around here have stopped asking which neighbor's side they're supposed to stand on, so maybe a wildlife study will settle what neighbors couldn't—
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Ty's Take Summer's hitting its stride in the valley when the farmers' market opens and folks start lining up for a 5K before dawn—556 people in Manassa proves there's still hunger for the kind of gathering that doesn't require a
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Ty's Take There's something about spring that brings the old fishermen out of the woodwork around here, and somebody down at the paper thought to chase that story. Fair enough—because if you've lived long enough in the basin, you know that a good
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Ty's Take Seems like a rough stretch on our roads and in our vehicles—two accidents in as many days, a side-by-side rollover that caught three people, and another wreck out toward Willow Springs with four more hurt. You don't need me to tell
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Ty's Take Water fights, space dreams, and sewage don't usually share the same editorial real estate, but that's Sierra County in 2024—we're stretched thin defending our Rio Grande allocation against Texas while Spaceport America still hunts for its first real tenant
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of argument that happens in small towns when nobody's quite ready to admit what they're really arguing about. The Vasquez-HMS dust-up over whether a public meeting is needed has that feel—the kind of
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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 Kids Safety Day out at the fairgrounds is the kind of thing that doesn't make the news until something goes wrong—and when it does, folks wish they'd paid closer attention. The county runs these events because experience teaches that a child
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Ty's Take A town library isn't a luxury—it's infrastructure, same as a water line or a road, and Pagosa's been running on fumes long enough that people have stopped noticing. The Sun's piece today on what a strengthened library
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Ty's Take We lost a couple of good ones this week—David Gardner, who spent most of his life on the Hill, and Joe Myers down in White Rock—and that's the kind of news that reminds you this town, for all its laboratories and equations
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Ty's Take Lebanon's ball diamonds have been hard-packed clay and grass for a generation, the kind of fields where kids learn to slide and parents learn patience on bleacher seats. The park board's talk about artificial turf is the kind of practical decision