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Ty's Take Tomorrow night's council meeting on Ponderosa Mountain deserves more than the usual Tuesday crowd in folding chairs. This isn't just another rezoning fight, though God knows we've had plenty of those. What we're really arguing about is what
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Ty's Take Churches in small towns do what they've always done, which is hold the place together on Sundays and in the quiet moments between. World Communion Sunday reminds us that a congregation in Pagosa Springs is part of something bigger, something that stretches across denominations
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing when a small town's charitable calendar fills up like Pagosa Springs' has these past few weeks. A sold-out runway show for Rise, a clothing giveaway through St. Patrick's, genealogy meetings, kids' clubs starting
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Ty's Take The ponderosa pines dying across Colorado hit different when you can see them from your porch. That slow burn through the San Juan National Forest isn't some distant ecological problem anymore, not when the bark beetle and drought have turned what used to be
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Ty's Take That river running high last week reminded us why water moves everything around here, and not just the San Juan when it swells past its banks. PAWSD's looking at rate increases and budget cuts to plug a hole that won't appear until
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Ty's Take You'll find a lot to unpack in this week's paper if you care about where Pagosa's headed. There's money on the table: state ag credits for our ranchers and farmers, grant dollars for the arts, tech recognition for
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Ty's Take The Swiss Roll Fire sitting at 88 percent contained while PAWSD lifts drought restrictions in the same news cycle tells you something about how precarious things still are around here. We're not out of the woods yet, literally or figuratively, and the forest service
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Ty's Take The county disaster declaration sitting on the front page this morning is the kind of thing that tends to get buried until it's too late, so here it is plain: Archuleta County just officially acknowledged something the rest of us have been watching build
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Ty's Take Any Tuesday you see this many church announcements clustered together, it's worth asking what's really happening in town. We've got Catholics running a 14-part series on the Holy Spirit, Unitarians gathering to talk politics and voting, St. Francis marking
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Ty's Take Water's been the story around here for years, and not always in the ways we hoped. Last week it was drought and fire danger. This week the county's declaring disaster over flooding, and we've had to shut down the landfill
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Ty's Take Mountain Chile Cha Cha's back for year twenty, the library's got an author coming through, health services are training up local people instead of importing them from somewhere else, and the Rotary's calling folks out to clean Put Hill before
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Ty's Take The commissioners have their hands full this week, working through a slope repair on County Road 500 while fielding a tourism pitch from the lodgers' association and listening to questions about how visitor dollars get spent around here. It's the kind of balancing