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Ty's Take There's a reason a town like this one, sandwiched between the reservation, the mountains, and all the people passing through looking for healing or escape, keeps pulling together groups around the question of what we're actually doing here. The Spiritual Experiences Group
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Ty's Take The courthouse renovation got the planning commission's blessing this week, which means we're one step closer to seeing what comes next for that building downtown. But the real conversation happening in those meeting rooms, and probably over coffee at the usual spots,
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Ty's Take The 2027 tourism budget coming out this week is worth reading between the lines, because it tells you where town leadership thinks Pagosa Springs is headed, and whether they've learned anything from watching what tourism money does to mountain communities that can't
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Ty's Take October's here and the papers are full of it, same as always: kids playing hard into the fall season, fire district budgets that never quite stretch far enough, water questions that won't get answered by November, and two editorial boards telling you
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Ty's Take The rain coming in over the next few days might not solve our water situation, but it's worth paying attention to because everything here lives or dies on what falls from the sky and where it goes after. Highway 160's tore up
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Ty's Take Our medical center is in trouble, and everybody here knows it. The finances are real, the staffing shortages are real, and no amount of community spirit circles or inspirational living events changes the fact that Pagosa Springs Medical Center is the kind of essential service that
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Ty's Take Friends and Neighbors in Need hosting a fundraiser isn't much of a headline until you remember that this outfit keeps people fed and housed when the margins get thin, which happens to more of us than we like to admit. In a town where
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Ty's Take You want to talk about timing? We've got a prescribed burn canceled on Eight Mile Mesa while the San Juan Stargazers are planning to aim their telescopes at clear skies come October, and somewhere in between we're marking Indigenous People's
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Ty's Take Part three of the planning editorial, housing action plans, and now a "Housing Action Plan" open for review—and that's before we even get to the voters hollering about cost of living. Sounds like the county's finally feeling the pressure
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Ty's Take Three vacant seats in the county planning department, limited hours, and a town council that just punted on a major subdivision decision. That's not a formula for moving things forward when you've got sales tax collections sliding two months running and a
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Ty's Take There's real infrastructure work happening around town right now, and it's worth noticing. U.S. 160 reconstruction, the tire collection that happened despite the weather, the prescribed burn coming to Eight Mile Mesa tomorrow, the push to expand Head Start and hire
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Ty's Take A community arguing with itself about what's real is a community that needs to sit down together, and it looks like folks around here are trying. The Mountain Chile Cha Cha brought people out, the Blessing of the Animals will bring them out again,