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Ty's Take The state education board's approval of MAST as Montana's new statewide assessment comes with conditions attached, which is the only way these things ever work in a state as divided as ours on what kids ought to know and how we measure
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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 fire restrictions going into effect across the valley are the seasonal reminder we all need—in a high-altitude basin where the nearest water sources are already spoken for three times over, wildfire smoke doesn't just darken the sky, it threatens the whole system.
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Ty's Take The tennis courts down at the park are seeing some real life these days, and that matters more than you'd think in a town like this—when your kids are swinging rackets instead of staring at screens, when volunteers are building something that holds
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Ty's Take The Fourth falls on a Wednesday this year, which means City Hall's locked up and the real celebrating happens when the work week ends—Skyfire on Friday night, the SAR/DAR fireworks coming Monday, and somewhere in between a whole lot of folks taking
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Ty's Take Truth or Consequences has never been shy about its name, and this weekend proved we're not shy about much else either. Pride Weekend brought color to Main Street—literal rainbows, but also the kind of visible acceptance that wasn't always a given
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Ty's Take Santa Clara's got itself a new bike park, which on the surface sounds like the kind of thing you'd expect in a town trying to rebrand itself—and there's nothing wrong with that. But pull back and you're
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Ty's Take The library's been open a few weeks now, and already you can see it's become more than a building—it's become a reason for people to show up somewhere that isn't their house or their job. That matters
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Ty's Take Rough week on the water and the roads around here, the kind that reminds you why the volunteer fire department runs their boats out at all hours and why the sheriff's office doesn't sleep much come summer. We've had dock
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Ty's Take Fire's still walking through Mesa de la Gallina country, and by now most of you know what that means—smoke in the valley, ash on the truck windshields, the smell of juniper and piñon carrying down from the high ground. These fires move slow
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Ty's Take Montana's water picture is getting harder to ignore, and the state's decision to expand its Mesonet stations—those automated weather and soil monitors scattered across the landscape—is the kind of quiet preparation that usually means someone's worried about what&
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Ty's Take The Forest Service's roadless rule debate hits different out here, where the line between conservation and access isn't theoretical—it's personal. You've got ranchers who've worked the same high country their families settled a century ago,