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Ty's Take Dr. Cody Daniels opening up that new dental space on the north end isn't just another business expansion—it's one of the few signs we're seeing that somebody still believes the fundamentals of this town work. Dentistry, like ranching or
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Ty's Take The Native Lens Symposium coming back to town in June reminds you why this corner of Colorado keeps drawing people who actually want to be here—not just pass through on the way to somewhere else. Free workshops, mentors from the film industry, a chance for
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Ty's Take Fire restrictions are here, which means somebody up the chain saw the same dry conditions we're all looking at and decided it was time to get serious before July hits hard. The BLM's stage one order across six counties isn't
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Ty's Take Water's always been the argument that matters most in high country, and this week the Southwestern Water Conservation District found their person to settle some of it—at least on paper. The new general manager's got to thread a needle that gets
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Ty's Take There's a stretch of June where Pagosa Springs feels like it's trying on a dozen different versions of itself all at once—the Forest Service throws open the gates for free, a peace run moves through town, somebody's staging a
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Ty's Take The stack of stories this week—wildfire prep costs climbing, water staying tight, geothermal schemes eyeing our backyard—keeps circling back to the same hard truth about living here: paradise costs something, and it's not just the second-mortgage payment. We can host festivals and
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Ty's Take Memorial Day's coming up, which means we'll see the flags go in at the cemetery and hear the names read—the ones who didn't come home, the ones who did but left pieces of themselves somewhere else. That's
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how a small town keeps its culture alive, and this week Pagosa's got three chances to see it happening. A kid named Travers Vasek is playing a senior recital—that's the moment when a young
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of trust that gets broken when a cop's credibility starts cracking in a small town—not just between that officer and the public, but in the whole system people depend on when things go sideways. Cases getting dismissed
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Ty's Take Fire restrictions kick in Friday on the forest that surrounds us, which means the season of holding our breath officially begins again. Between the guardrail repairs the county's tackling, the wildfire prep pieces running in the Post, and all the talk about what another
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Ty's Take The wildfire code taking effect next month is the kind of thing that sounds like bureaucratic overhead until you're watching embers blow across your roof—and by then it's too late. Pagosa's been lucky compared to some of what we&
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Ty's Take The wolves are back in the San Juans, and the state's latest count confirms what most of us already know from the scat and the tracks and the occasional early-morning sighting—they're establishing themselves in our backcountry like they never left. That&