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Ty's Take There's a lot of talk this week about water, which makes sense for a town built on the hottest springs in the world and surrounded by land that's drier every year. The film series kicking off October 8th, the ballot measures getting
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Ty's Take There's a data center story buried in today's paper that deserves more eyeballs than it'll probably get. A massive operation could go up next to homes in this county without a public hearing, which means neighbors wake up one morning
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Ty's Take The Swiss Roll Fire sitting at 36 percent contained is a reminder that we're not out of the woods yet, not by a long shot. Yes, fall is coming and the monsoons did their part, but one dry week in September and we'
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Ty's Take Fall's turning the aspen gold up on those forest roads, and come Saturday the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is marking the equinox the old way, with Mabon and a potluck that'll probably draw half the county. There's something worth noticing in
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Ty's Take A slow news day around here is usually when you know things are working. The food pantry network is doing the hard labor that doesn't make headlines until somebody goes hungry, the geothermal greenhouse people are still finding ways to use what comes up
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Ty's Take Colorfest is back for Labor Day weekend, which means the sky over Pagosa will fill with hot air balloons while the rest of us fill our bellies and remember why we stick around a place this beautiful, even when the tourists triple our population and the
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Ty's Take Highway 160 getting torn up, the planning commission green-lighting another subdivision, the county studying costs for a new admin building, and now water conservation plans that have farmers and ranchers nervous. You'd think somebody at the table was keeping score on all this,
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Ty's Take The fire restrictions are lifting and the Swiss Roll is finally backing off, which means we can all take a breath we've been holding since summer. But the real story isn't the relief, it's that we've spent the
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Ty's Take Two bear attacks in a handful of days will get anybody's attention, and Parks and Wildlife is doing what it can to remind folks out here that we're sharing country with animals that were here long before the subdivisions. What matters now
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Ty's Take Football season's here again, and that means Friday nights matter the way they do in small towns where there's not much else pulling everybody to the same place at the same time. The choir's gearing up for Christmas already, the
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Ty's Take There's a particular rhythm to a small town in September, and you see it in what people are reaching for. The theater group's casting calls, the church series on peace, the Bible study starting up, the fellowship diving into what binds us
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Ty's Take Small towns run on the people who show up. Saturday morning pancakes, a library staff that knows your kids by name, a genealogical society helping folks understand where they come from, grandparents getting their due on a Tuesday in September. None of it makes the state