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Ty's Take Summer's wrapping up fast, and you can feel it in how quick the calendar turns to school stuff around here. Free vaccines for the kids, the fair coming with real entertainment this year, and the new Wildcats roster getting introduced, all happening right now
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Ty's Take When a slow week hits the Chama Valley and Abiquiú country, the obits tell you what kind of place this is. These are the names that built the land grants, worked the ranches through hard winters, raised families in villages where everybody knows everybody, and kept
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Ty's Take The drought's got teeth this year, and you can see them everywhere from Creede to here. A yearling bear working through town trash, voluntary fishing closures on stretches of the Rio Grande that folks depend on, and the kind of pressure on water that
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Ty's Take Thirteen arrests in a narcotics operation might sound like a big number until you realize how small a valley really is, and how far the tentacles of this stuff reach when you start pulling the thread. The Alamosa County Sheriff's Office and their partners
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Ty's Take The fair's open, the Kellys are back in the spotlight, and somebody's finally serious about what we do with Bonito Lake, which around here means the conversation about water just got a lot less theoretical. You can feel it this time of
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Ty's Take Route ZZ's getting torn up next week for some serious pavement work, which means if you're heading out that direction you'll want to find another way or plan for some slowdowns. The county road crews know what they're
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Ty's Take The boil-water advisory that hit town last week could've been a real mess, and credit goes to whoever caught it early enough to keep folks safe before things got worse. That's the kind of invisible work that doesn't make
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Ty's Take The legal scrapping between Cobre and Bayard over that field lease is exactly the kind of thing that grinds on a county like ours, where water rights and mineral claims have been tangled up in paper trails since before most of us were born. You'
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Ty's Take Buena Vista's got four names on the trustee ballot and Salida's got a mayoral race heating up, which means the valley is doing what it does best right now: paying attention to who's going to steer things while the rest
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Ty's Take The old mill on North Main has always been the kind of building that made you wonder what it was thinking about. For decades it sat there, brick and bones, holding whatever memory a textile operation holds after the looms go quiet. Now somebody's
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Ty's Take There's a lot of talk this week about water, which makes sense for a town built on the hottest springs in the world and surrounded by land that's drier every year. The film series kicking off October 8th, the ballot measures getting
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Ty's Take The rain question hanging over Los Alamos right now isn't really about whether it's still falling, though clearly folks around here are watching the sky like they always do come monsoon season. It's about what happens next when the storms