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Ty's Take You get the sense this time of year that Pagosa's holding its breath. The highway work drags on, water concerns keep surfacing at the planning board, and now the state's bumping minimum wage again, which hits small employers hard in a town
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Ty's Take Fire recovery information is available now for anybody still sorting through what comes next, which if you've been through one of these you know matters more than the initial flames ever did. The Gateway Project film premiering tomorrow at Liberty Theatre is worth your
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Ty's Take The town's got a lot on its mind these days, and you can see it in the mix of what people are actually talking about. There's the stuff that matters in hard practical ways, like whether the sewer system needs work or
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how a town decides to feed itself. Healthy Archuleta's push into gardening education isn't just about vegetables or September workshops, though Lord knows we could use more folks growing their own in country this high
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Ty's Take You can usually tell when the mountains are running lean. This summer's drought has pushed the bears down hard, breaking into garages and tearing into anything that smells like a meal, and Colorado Parks and Wildlife is doing what they always do when hunger
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Ty's Take Rio Blanco Fire nearing full containment is the kind of news that lets you breathe easier around here, at least for now. The fire season never really ends in this country, not anymore, and every acre that stops burning is one less threat to the timber
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Ty's Take Road work on 160 never seems to end around here, and this time the county's signaling it might chase federal money to help patch things together. Meanwhile, the state's rolling out a water contribution program, which ought to get everyone's
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Ty's Take The county's hint about ditching road maintenance comes at the worst possible moment, right when Highway 160 reconstruction is tying up the main artery through town and the Rio Blanco fire's still burning up there in the San Juans. Nobody expects government
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Ty's Take The Rio Blanco fire is moving the way August fires move around here, and that means the Lower Blanco drainage is waking up to the kind of morning nobody wants to see. Smoke like that brings the whole county into sharp focus real quick, because fire
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Ty's Take Echo Canyon's back open for boating, which means the reservoir's finally holding enough water to make that worthwhile again. That's the kind of thing people around here watch like a stock ticker, because everything flows downhill from there, literally and
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing in how a small town stays glued together when money gets tight and nobody's got much to spare. The piece about generosity making something happen doesn't spell out what that something is, but that's
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Ty's Take The County Fair pictures tell you what matters most around here right now, and it's not complicated. People showing livestock they've raised, kids displaying projects they've worked on for months, neighbors seeing neighbors at picnic tables under the sun. That&