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Ty's Take There's a stretch of June where Pagosa Springs feels like it's trying on a dozen different versions of itself all at once—the Forest Service throws open the gates for free, a peace run moves through town, somebody's staging a
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Ty's Take The stack of stories this week—wildfire prep costs climbing, water staying tight, geothermal schemes eyeing our backyard—keeps circling back to the same hard truth about living here: paradise costs something, and it's not just the second-mortgage payment. We can host festivals
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Ty's Take Memorial Day's coming up, which means we'll see the flags go in at the cemetery and hear the names read—the ones who didn't come home, the ones who did but left pieces of themselves somewhere else. That's
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how a small town keeps its culture alive, and this week Pagosa's got three chances to see it happening. A kid named Travers Vasek is playing a senior recital—that's the moment when a young
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of trust that gets broken when a cop's credibility starts cracking in a small town—not just between that officer and the public, but in the whole system people depend on when things go sideways. Cases getting dismissed
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Ty's Take Fire restrictions kick in Friday on the forest that surrounds us, which means the season of holding our breath officially begins again. Between the guardrail repairs the county's tackling, the wildfire prep pieces running in the Post, and all the talk about what another
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Ty's Take The wildfire code taking effect next month is the kind of thing that sounds like bureaucratic overhead until you're watching embers blow across your roof—and by then it's too late. Pagosa's been lucky compared to some of what we&
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Ty's Take The wolves are back in the San Juans, and the state's latest count confirms what most of us already know from the scat and the tracks and the occasional early-morning sighting—they're establishing themselves in our backcountry like they never left.
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how a small town fills its calendar when the snow's gone and the season shifts. A stress management piece for seniors, a summer reading push, a spiritual group meeting—none of it makes the state wire, but
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Ty's Take Road work on the pass is never great timing, but May's when it has to happen—weather window closes fast up there. What catches the eye this week, though, is how many of these stories circle back to the same thing: people in this
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Ty's Take The pattern's becoming hard to miss: fire code, hydrant pressure, reconstruction scrutiny, and now wildfire resilience standards all landing on the table at once. That's not coincidence in a town ringed by National Forest where the last big burn is still fresh
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Ty's Take The legislature packed up and headed home last week after one hundred twenty days of trying to square circles—water rights, data centers, the whole mess of what Colorado's supposed to become. Down here we've got our own version of that same