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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
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Ty's Take The county's move to pump the brakes on data centers while the town wrestles with who sits at the council table tells you something about where Pagosa's head is these days—we're trying to figure out who we want to
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Ty's Take The town's looking at picking up the old Wyndham properties, which sounds like a straightforward real estate move until you sit with it a minute—this is what happens when a resort town finally admits it can't leave everything to the private
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Ty's Take The water district staying in Drought Stage 1, the school board wrestling with questions nobody's got easy answers to, Habitat for Humanity pushing a new housing push, and the federal government just now realizing there's a healthcare desert out here—it all
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Ty's Take There's a wolf dead up in Routt County this week, and down here we're still sorting through what that means for the rest of us living on the San Juans' eastern slope. Colorado Parks and Wildlife says it had no collar,
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Ty's Take You notice pretty quick in a town this size that the hard conversations happen in church basements and community centers, not on Main Street over coffee—which maybe says something about who we are and what we need right now. This week alone you've
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Ty's Take Town council's moving on those old Wyndham properties, and that's the kind of real estate shuffle that either fixes something broken or creates new problems—depends who you ask and what gets built there. For years those parcels sat half-empty, bleeding
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Ty's Take The screwworm alert coming down from Colorado Parks and Wildlife is the kind of thing folks around here used to worry about plenty—livestock losses that could gut a ranching operation in weeks—and then stopped worrying about because we'd beaten it back decades
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Ty's Take The BLM's push to lease parcels for oil and gas drilling in this county isn't new—it's the rhythm of federal land management, the same dance we've done for decades. But it's hitting different now, because
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Ty's Take Two good people are walking out the schoolhouse door after 53 years of combined service, and that's the kind of story that catches up with a town like ours whether we're paying attention or not. O'Donnell and Jordan didn'
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Ty's Take The governor's drought emergency declaration landed the same week we're sliding into Stage 1 fire restrictions, which means the math everyone's been doing in their heads for months just became official—we're short on water, and it'
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Ty's Take Fire restrictions coming June 6th means the dry season is officially here, and if you've lived through the last few years in Archuleta County, you know what that calendar marker really means—the next four months will be a holding of breath. Stage 1