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Ty's Take The county's heading back to the bond market again, which means someone up in the Commission offices thinks the water situation, the roads, and the pipes running underneath us all need another infusion of cash. Fourth time in a generation we've asked
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Ty's Take A fire chief hurt in an explosion, a wildfire creeping across the county at 17% containment, and dust so thick you can't see the mesa—that's three separate weather and safety stories that tell the real story of July in Grant County.
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Ty's Take Fifty years of river otters, a ski area's expansion plan finally blessed by the Forest Service, and the city council doubling down on affordable housing in the same week—that's Salida in 2024, caught between preserving what made this place worth discovering
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Ty's Take Bear spray training might sound like a one-afternoon checkbox, but anyone who's had to use it—or worse, wished they had—knows the difference between carrying a canister and actually knowing what to do when a grizzly decides you're in its way.
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Ty's Take The drought keeps tightening, water keeps getting scarcer, and the county keeps raising fees—which is what happens when a place built on abundance wakes up to scarcity. PAWSD's got to recalibrate their numbers on the San Juan, the fire restrictions are getting stricter
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Ty's Take Fire assessment complete, monsoon season here, and the county's running a DIY workshop on the eighteenth—which tells you something about where Los Alamos' head is at right now. Between the McCauley Springs burn scar still fresh in people's minds and
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Ty's Take The obits page today carries names that mean something in this valley—Knapp, Villemez, Hourigan—people who were here when the orchards still stretched wider and the water fights were mostly about farming. Meanwhile down at the other end of the paper, you've got
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Ty's Take Camdenton's data center dream died quiet, the way a lot of big promises do around here—somebody else's vision that didn't quite fit the place we already have. But while that developer was backing out of annexation agreements, real work
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Ty's Take Every week in a county like ours somebody wraps a vehicle around a tree or a guardrail on one of these state routes, and every week we run the names and the details because that's what happened and people need to know. But what
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Ty's Take The obits this week remind you that Hatch loses people steady—Carol Ann, Clare, Shannyn, Timothy—names that belonged to families who worked these fields and knew the valley when it was smaller and the chile harvest meant something different than it does now. But there&
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Ty's Take The men and women who run schools and water associations and county services up this way don't make the news much until something shifts—a principal moves on, a budget request lands on a commissioner's desk, a rule gets written that ripples