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Ty's Take The library's switch from CloudLibrary to Hoopla is the kind of behind-the-scenes shuffle that doesn't make anyone's day, but it matters more than folks realize when you're trying to keep a small-town collection relevant and
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Ty's Take The broadband outage that knocked us offline this week was a reminder of how fast things have changed around here, and how much we've come to depend on it. Same week the town council moved to block new data centers with a two-year
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Ty's Take A horse came down with vesicular stomatitis virus somewhere in Archuleta County, which means every rancher and stable owner in these mountains just got a reminder that livestock diseases don't respect property lines or fence posts. The good news is this one's
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Ty's Take You can tell a lot about a town by where it decides to put its energy, and right now Archuleta County is wrestling with the fundamentals, the kind of unglamorous work that doesn't make the tourism brochures. The water conservancy district is talking ranch
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Ty's Take Highway 160 getting torn up for a week starting next Monday is the kind of thing that sounds like a minor inconvenience until you're sitting in your truck watching dust settle on both sides of the construction zone, watching the summer traffic back up
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing in how a slow summer week in Pagosa shapes up—gardens and music festivals, comedy nights and teen programs, folks thinking about past lives and what a satisfied mind might look like. It's the kind of lineup that
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Ty's Take Wildfire season's still three months out and the smoke's already settling into the valley—which tells you something about what's burning up in the high country and how the wind's running these days. The county health folks are
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Ty's Take A town library isn't a luxury—it's infrastructure, same as a water line or a road, and Pagosa's been running on fumes long enough that people have stopped noticing. The Sun's piece today on what a strengthened library
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Ty's Take Fifty-eight thousand visitors rolled through Archuleta County over the Fourth, which tells you something about where this place sits in the world's imagination these days—and something about the weight that puts on our roads, our water system, and the folks who actually
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Ty's Take The drilling concerns down in Arboles aren't new, but the fact that residents keep showing up to say so tells you something about what happens when outside money moves into somebody else's backyard. You can talk efficiency all you want—and Lord
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Ty's Take The fire district's clean audit is the kind of news that doesn't make anybody's blood pump faster, but it should matter more than it does—especially in a place where wildfire risk keeps half the county awake at night come
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Ty's Take The 19th Hole pulled in ten grand for local nonprofits last weekend, which says something worth saying about this town—that even when money's tight and second-home values have people wound up about taxes and water and what this place is becoming, there&