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Ty's Take The Swiss Roll Fire assessment continues while election security gets parsed and kids sign up for fall programs, which is the rhythm of a week in a mountain town where you've got to keep your eye on the forest while the country argues about
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Ty's Take Not much doing on the hard news front this week, which means the real work of holding a town together falls to the folks who show up. The stargazers are meeting again, the Methodist church is feeding people and wrestling with big questions over potluck, and
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Ty's Take Dolly Parton changed this town without ever setting foot here, which says something about the reach of a life spent giving. The Imagination Library has put books in the hands of kids around Pagosa Springs for years now, the kind of thing that happens quietly until
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Ty's Take The word on U.S. 160 reconstruction used to be that it'd be done by now, then next summer, then the summer after that. At some point you stop asking when and start asking who's actually in charge, which is probably why
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of tension that shows up when a town starts talking about closing roads and restricting access, even to a parking area most folks barely think about until someone proposes taking it away. The Country Center Drive proposal sits right in
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Ty's Take Water. It's the only story that matters in Archuleta County right now, and anybody paying attention to the meetings down at Town Hall already knows it. The water conservancy approving a demand study, PAWSD talking drought enforcement, the Colorado River running lower every year,
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Ty's Take Housing's been the third rail around here for two years running, and the Daily Post's right to keep beating the drum on it. But there's a gap between identifying the problem and actually moving folks toward solutions, and that gap&
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Ty's Take The garden series from Healthy Archuleta and word about robot-assisted surgery at the medical center aren't the flashy headlines that grab folks at the coffee counter, but they're the ones worth paying attention to around here. A community that invests in
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Ty's Take Religious communities around here have always been more than Sunday morning affairs, and this week shows why that matters. The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is putting their Sunday service toward civic engagement, while SpiritFire is ramping up programming at the Inspirational Living Center, and you see in
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of week in a small town where you can feel the summer starting to let go. The Thingamajig wraps up its season, the library adds a new digital service, a sculpture garden fills with music and history, and somewhere out
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Ty's Take The water fights never really end around here, they just cycle through different courtrooms and different names. This week we're watching Colorado get defiant with the feds over the Colorado River while our own county sits down to hash out what housing looks like
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Ty's Take The commissioners are asking voters to dig deeper into their pockets for the lodging tax, and you can read that move a couple of ways depending on which side of the second-home divide you're standing on. Those pushing it will tell you the