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Ty's Take You notice right away that half the news this week circles back to the same hard truth: we're living in a landscape that's becoming less forgiving. The forest health tour up on Cade Mountain, the screwworm warnings creeping north, the Colorado River
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Ty's Take Summer's here and the calendar's filling fast—solstice picnics, live music downtown, kids' clubs spinning up for the season. It's the kind of week that reminds you why people move to Pagosa in the first place, or why the
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Ty's Take SpiritFire's got a full calendar coming up, and that tells you something about what people around here are hungry for right now—connection, meaning, a chance to sit with neighbors who aren't arguing about second homes or water allocations. We're
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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 into
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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