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Ty's Take The Swiss Roll Fire sitting in our backyard without threatening homes yet is the kind of news that lets you breathe easier and worry harder at the same time. After the summers we've seen around here, any fire within sight of Pagosa Springs gets
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Ty's Take The Forest Service is pushing prescribed burns through the San Juan this fall, and anybody who's watched smoke roll into town from a lightning strike knows the math they're working with: burn it controlled now or deal with something far worse when
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Ty's Take Road work, school funding, bear trouble, and ballot questions stacking up for November, which means September around here turns into that narrow window where locals actually plan ahead before the tourists come thick and Wolf Creek starts loading the lifts. CDOT's been talking projects
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Ty's Take This week's calendar reads like September itself, that month when a mountain town remembers it's actually a community and not just a staging ground for tourists. End of Life Education offering fall meetings, Peace Walk coming up on the 12th, Curtains Up
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Ty's Take Twenty-five years is long enough to feel the weight of something, and short enough that plenty of people here remember exactly where they were when it happened. The 9/11 remembrance coming up gives us a chance to do what small towns do better than
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Ty's Take Back-to-school season hit different this year, with PCI's fair drawing twice the crowd of last year, which tells you something about what folks around here are hungry for right now. You've got the garden columns running, the churches settling into
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Ty's Take We're heading into that stretch of year when the San Juans get busy in a hurry, and it's worth remembering what that means. The bears are hungry before winter, hunters are sighting in rifles, school traffic picks back up, and folks from
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Ty's Take The school bond measure hitting the ballot this fall is going to split this town the way bonds always do, but this one's different because the stakes are actually here, not somewhere else. Eighty million dollars isn't abstract when you live in
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Ty's Take Nobody likes a road closure, but when commissioners move to shut down Country Center Drive access, there's usually something broken underneath that needs fixing before somebody else gets hurt. The 30-day notice tells you this isn't sudden, and that matters. What
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Ty's Take The school board's decision to ask voters for an eighty-million-dollar bond in November is going to focus this town's mind like nothing else on the ballot this fall. You can read the editorials starting to stack up in the Daily
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Ty's Take There's an old saying that you can't prepare for everything, but you can sure prepare for the things that matter most, and this week the paper's running down the basics in ways that won't break the bank. Whether
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Ty's Take The Swiss Roll Fire assessment continues while election security gets parsed and kids sign up for fall programs, which is the rhythm of a week in a mountain town where you've got to keep your eye on the forest while the country argues about