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Ty's Take Highway 160 getting torn up for a week starting mid-July means anybody heading to Wolf Creek or down toward Durango better plan accordingly, and that's the kind of disruption that catches people off guard around here—we're used to seasonal closures
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Ty's Take There's a reason the hot springs drew people here in the first place—something about this water, this valley, this particular slice of Colorado makes a person want to slow down and stay awhile. The pieces in today's paper about rest and
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Ty's Take There's something worth sitting with in the news that three separate Colorado victories are happening in our backyard this week—a library fundraiser that keeps our archive alive, a theater company that proves culture takes root even in towns of 1,800, and a
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Ty's Take The duathlon coming up in July is one of those things that says something true about a town—whether people still believe enough in the place to show up, sweat through it together, and call it a good Saturday morning. Eighteen years running now, which in
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Ty's Take The drought keeps tightening, water keeps getting scarcer, and the county keeps raising fees—which is what happens when a place built on abundance wakes up to scarcity. PAWSD's got to recalibrate their numbers on the San Juan, the fire restrictions are getting stricter
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Ty's Take You can read a lot in what this week's news says about who we are right now. The water conservancy is mapping out another year of strategy. The hospital came through clean. The town and county finally hammered out a tourism agreement instead of
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Ty's Take We're in that squeeze again—Stage 2 fire restrictions kicking in next week, which means the whole county holds its breath until monsoon season actually shows up, and meanwhile the property values keep climbing because people from the Front Range can't stop
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Ty's Take When the heat index climbs like it does in July down here at elevation, we tend to think about tourists overheating on the trails or folks forgetting water on the golf course. But the piece on Alzheimer's and extreme temps reminds us that some
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Ty's Take Summer in Pagosa is doing what it does best—giving people reasons to stick around and remember why they're here. The library's back in full swing, Thingamajig's got the stage warm, the history museum's reminding us what 250
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Ty's Take You can read through the budget meetings and the power outage plans and the workforce housing vote and see the bones of a town trying to hold itself together while the heat turns up. Council greenlit property purchases for workforce housing the same week the county
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Ty's Take The deadline for that state electrification rebate program got moved up to August 1st, which means if you've been thinking about swapping out that old propane heater or electric range, you're running short on time to get your application in the door.
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Ty's Take There's a lot of bureaucratic machinery humming along this week—comprehensive plans, septic rules, grant applications, rebate deadlines sliding up to August first—and it's easy to dismiss it all as the usual county business that happens whether anybody's paying