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Ty's Take Fire season's knocking early again. The Schrader Creek fire over near Del Norte on the Rio Grande National Forest is still small at nine acres, but that's the kind of start that keeps folks around here watching the weather reports like it&
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Ty's Take The Mercury 13 induction at the Space Hall of Fame is the kind of thing that reminds you why this town exists where it does, why we've got that museum and why kids still look up at the sky around here with something other
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Ty's Take Property lines and right-of-way disputes have a way of turning neighbors into adversaries out here, and this week's arrest over a county road squabble in Ava is a reminder that some arguments don't cool off once they get hot. Meanwhile,
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Ty's Take Two pieces of news today that cut straight to what keeps this county running, which is water and the land that holds it. The Copper Flat hearing on tailings stability is the kind of thing most folks tune out until it matters, and then it matters
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Ty's Take When a threat closes down the schools and puts parents in their cars heading to pick up their kids, everything else stops mattering for a few hours. We don't know yet what happened or who made the call, but the shelter-in-place drill
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Ty's Take The letters coming in this week hit a nerve that runs through this whole valley, and they're worth reading straight through. One farmer's talking about the squeeze, another's promoting Give Like Dolly Day, and meanwhile Buena Vista's trying
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Ty's Take Twenty-three years out and we still set aside the day to remember. That's not a criticism, it's the mark of a wound that doesn't fully close, and maybe shouldn't. Phelps County sent people to those wars, buried
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Ty's Take A slow news day around here is usually when you know things are working. The food pantry network is doing the hard labor that doesn't make headlines until somebody goes hungry, the geothermal greenhouse people are still finding ways to use what comes up
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Ty's Take Slow week on the hill, which means what's actually moving is the small stuff that shapes how a town lives. You've got people arguing about breakfast sugar at the elementary school while the Lab's brightest are getting Fellows' Prizes,
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Ty's Take Every year the Chamber's Wall of Honor reminds us that community doesn't happen by accident, and it doesn't get built by people looking for credit. These are the ones who showed up to the boat plants when work was scarce,
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Ty's Take Nancy Carol Coates was 84 when she passed, and if you've lived here long enough you know that means she watched this valley transform from something smaller into what it is now. That's the kind of life span that carries weight in