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Ty's Take Soulcraft Brewing's bankruptcy filing landed like a winter storm nobody saw coming, the kind that reminds you how fast things can change in a small town economy. The brewery's been part of the downtown fabric for years now, one of the places
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Ty's Take There's a lot of noise in the valley right now about who's running what and why they won't say what they mean, but if you want to know what actually matters to people around here, skip the political letters and
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Ty's Take The ArtWalk coming up the second weekend of October used to be the thing that told you summer was officially done and the real Salida came back out to play, and thirty-three years in it still does that, though you can feel the crowd growing
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Ty's Take Charles Dozois spent most of his life in this valley, which in a place this size means he was woven into the fabric so thoroughly most people didn't notice until he was gone. The Zig Zag Wanderers will play the Harley shop on Friday
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Ty's Take The housing shuffle between Salida and Buena Vista this week looks like problem-solving until you sit with it a minute. Two river towns that ought to be figuring out how to build their way out of this mess are instead trading credits like poker chips,
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of activism that takes root in mountain towns, the kind that shows up not with grand speeches but with a wrench in hand and a bike frame that somebody else was ready to throw away. That nonprofit pedaling affordable bikes
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Ty's Take The fire department's open house this month gives folks a chance to do something we don't do enough around here: say thanks to people who show up at three in the morning because your house is burning or your kid stopped breathing.
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Ty's Take The SEC-barred accountant buying up Deer Valley Ranch cabins through Wyoming shell companies and renting them out is the kind of story that lands different depending on which side of the growth argument you're on. Some folks will see it as proof the
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Ty's Take The Collegiate Peaks Stampede pulling in Colorado Pro Rodeo Association's best large purse award says something worth saying about this valley. We're a river town now, sure, with galleries on F Street and breweries on every corner, but ranching built this county
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Ty's Take There's a kind of grace in a slow news day that doesn't announce itself. Archie the canine deputy finds three lost kids and reminds us what it means to have someone watching the county, the quilters show up with stories stitched into
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Ty's Take There's a lot of moving in Chaffee County right now, which is either encouraging or concerning depending on where you sit. The hospital's breaking ground on a new east wing, City Market's building out in Buena Vista, and down here
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Ty's Take A Supreme Court decision lands today, the community gathers around a dinner table Saturday night, and a young man is keeping his brother's dream alive at Monarch Pass. Not much ties those three things together on the surface, except they're all about