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Ty's Take A high-speed chase that ended in an Alamosa man's arrest tells you something about the kind of week law enforcement has been having down here, but the real story might be what's driving some of it, wild and hungry. That yearling
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Ty's Take The state's move on Cielo Vista Ranch probably isn't a surprise to anyone who's been watching the water fights around here for the last decade, but ten thousand acres is a serious play. Colorado's looking at land and
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Ty's Take Couple things happening around town that remind you why you keep reading the small print. A man's day went sideways in ways nobody plans for, the kind of accident that makes you grateful for neighbors and a working ER. Meanwhile the football team'
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Ty's Take West Plains Bank and Trust putting $114,575 back into the schools, the hospital, and the university says something true about how this county works. The money doesn't sit in some vault downtown—it moves through the places that hold us together, the ones
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Ty's Take The boil-water advisory came and went without the kind of panic that could've shut this town down, which says something about how we've learned to handle our vulnerabilities around here. But that calm shouldn't let us off the hook
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Ty's Take Water and politics are the two things nobody around here agrees on, and next week we get both at once. The candidate forum between Luis Terrazs and Raul Turrieta on October 1st is going to draw the usual crowd of folks ready to hear what either
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Ty's Take Downtown's getting a mural, the hospital just cleared six figures for a new infusion center, and Search and Rescue picked up another four grand at a car show, which means this town is still doing what it does best: showing up for its own.
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Ty's Take Hilderman's sworn in, the classical music series is back, and the Roosevelt Center's got the Sugar Daddies coming through, which means this town's firing on all cylinders again after whatever stretch of quiet we've had. You can feel
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Ty's Take Three vacant seats in the county planning department, limited hours, and a town council that just punted on a major subdivision decision. That's not a formula for moving things forward when you've got sales tax collections sliding two months running and a
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of quiet that settles over a town this size when the big news of the week is a proclamation about broadband access and a local dance school mounting The Nutcracker. You could read that as slow, and maybe it is,
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Ty's Take The future farmers learning their trade at this week's agriculture event are getting something you can't pick up from a textbook or a YouTube video, and that matters more than people realize. Around here, we've built something real on the
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Ty's Take Michelle Renee Sanders ran this town's community center for years, and if you've lived here long enough you know what that means—she was the person who made sure a kid from the North Valley had somewhere safe to go after school,