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Ty's Take Fifty-eight thousand visitors rolled through Archuleta County over the Fourth, which tells you something about where this place sits in the world's imagination these days—and something about the weight that puts on our roads, our water system, and the folks who actually live
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Ty's Take The drilling concerns down in Arboles aren't new, but the fact that residents keep showing up to say so tells you something about what happens when outside money moves into somebody else's backyard. You can talk efficiency all you want—and Lord
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Ty's Take The fire district's clean audit is the kind of news that doesn't make anybody's blood pump faster, but it should matter more than it does—especially in a place where wildfire risk keeps half the county awake at night come
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Ty's Take The 19th Hole pulled in ten grand for local nonprofits last weekend, which says something worth saying about this town—that even when money's tight and second-home values have people wound up about taxes and water and what this place is becoming, there'
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Ty's Take Highway 160 getting torn up for a week starting mid-July means anybody heading to Wolf Creek or down toward Durango better plan accordingly, and that's the kind of disruption that catches people off guard around here—we're used to seasonal closures come
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Ty's Take There's a reason the hot springs drew people here in the first place—something about this water, this valley, this particular slice of Colorado makes a person want to slow down and stay awhile. The pieces in today's paper about rest and
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Ty's Take There's something worth sitting with in the news that three separate Colorado victories are happening in our backyard this week—a library fundraiser that keeps our archive alive, a theater company that proves culture takes root even in towns of 1,800, and a
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Ty's Take The duathlon coming up in July is one of those things that says something true about a town—whether people still believe enough in the place to show up, sweat through it together, and call it a good Saturday morning. Eighteen years running now, which in
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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 You can read a lot in what this week's news says about who we are right now. The water conservancy is mapping out another year of strategy. The hospital came through clean. The town and county finally hammered out a tourism agreement instead of
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Ty's Take We're in that squeeze again—Stage 2 fire restrictions kicking in next week, which means the whole county holds its breath until monsoon season actually shows up, and meanwhile the property values keep climbing because people from the Front Range can't stop
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Ty's Take When the heat index climbs like it does in July down here at elevation, we tend to think about tourists overheating on the trails or folks forgetting water on the golf course. But the piece on Alzheimer's and extreme temps reminds us that some