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Ty's Take Highway 160 torn up again, water running short, and half the county wondering if we're going to price ourselves out of existence before the next big fire season hits—but here we are anyway, still showing up to tell our stories at the history
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Ty's Take The fire season's here again, and you can feel it in the air—not just the smoke, though God knows that's coming. It's the weight of it, the way every dry week in June feels like a countdown, the way
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Ty's Take The library's been open a few weeks now, and already you can see it's become more than a building—it's become a reason for people to show up somewhere that isn't their house or their job. That matters
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Ty's Take Summer's finally hitting its stride in Pagosa, and if you've been rationing your reasons to get out of the house, the next week or so is going to settle that. The 19th Hole wraps up its season with a concert on the
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Ty's Take The Red Ryder Rodeo coming up over the Fourth makes you remember what this town was before the hot springs became a destination and everybody's second address. You'll see working stock contractors and families who've been doing this for generations,
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Ty's Take Day Lumber hitting a hundred years out here is the kind of thing that stops you cold if you've been paying attention to what's happened to timber towns across the West. This outfit has weathered the spotted owl wars, the downturn, the
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Ty's Take We're staring down November with a ballot full of hard choices, and the one that ought to keep county commissioners up at night is Initiative 175. Diverting state road funds sounds like a local fix until you remember that every dollar Colorado sends our
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Ty's Take Stage 2 drought restrictions are here, which means the water conversation in Archuleta County just shifted from theoretical to real—and that's before we get into what comes next. You can talk all you want about energy-efficient schools and heat pump rebates, but
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Ty's Take You notice right away that half the news this week circles back to the same hard truth: we're living in a landscape that's becoming less forgiving. The forest health tour up on Cade Mountain, the screwworm warnings creeping north, the Colorado River
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Ty's Take Summer's here and the calendar's filling fast—solstice picnics, live music downtown, kids' clubs spinning up for the season. It's the kind of week that reminds you why people move to Pagosa in the first place, or why the
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Ty's Take SpiritFire's got a full calendar coming up, and that tells you something about what people around here are hungry for right now—connection, meaning, a chance to sit with neighbors who aren't arguing about second homes or water allocations. We're
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Ty's Take Water's been the conversation around here for months—drought stage two coming down the pike, highway reconstruction tearing up 160, folks worried about what next summer looks like. But today's real news is simpler and maybe more important: a food drive on