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Ty's Take There's a peculiar moment every summer when this valley catches fire—literally and figuratively—and people show their true colors. The Aspen Acres fire pushing toward fifty percent containment is the real story here, along with South Arkansas Fire Protection District doing what it
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Ty's Take Chaffee County's got itself a classic late-summer moment coming up—the Fair and Rodeo rolling in Friday with all the dust and noise and genuine community that still matters out here, while upstream in Buena Vista they're wrestling with which historic buildings
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Ty's Take Both valleys are betting on water this week—Buena Vista chasing grant money for a new well while the state keeps stocking the ponds and the commissioners hash over what the deer are doing to the landscape. That's the rhythm up here: you'
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Ty's Take There's something worth holding onto in that picture of Buena Vista dusting off old time capsules alongside the new ones they're burying for the next generation—the idea that a town knows itself by looking back before it looks ahead. We'
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Ty's Take The county's having one of those weeks where you can read the whole stack and still feel like you're watching separate movies—fire crews managing the Aspen Acres evacuation zone, the landfill burning for reasons nobody knows yet, folks down south getting
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Ty's Take Word gets around fast when our writers make the shortlist. Three finalists from the region in a statewide contest is the kind of thing that reminds you there's more ink flowing through these valleys than most people realize—folks who've settled here
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Ty's Take Hickenlooper's visit to Buena Vista this week to talk wildfire recovery is the kind of thing that matters more than it sounds—not because politicians show up, but because when they do, it's usually a sign that damage assessment has moved past
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Ty's Take Fire season's got the valley holding its breath again—evacuation orders coming down as fast as they went up, but the heat and wind forecast for this weekend means we're not out of the woods yet, literally or otherwise. Meanwhile, the smaller
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Ty's Take Fifty years of river otters, a ski area's expansion plan finally blessed by the Forest Service, and the city council doubling down on affordable housing in the same week—that's Salida in 2024, caught between preserving what made this place worth discovering
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Ty's Take Fire's backing off the ridgeline, evacuation orders are coming down, and folks in Fremont County can breathe a little easier—but the real test hasn't arrived yet. We've seen enough water years in this valley to know that what matters
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Ty's Take The Aspen Acres and Willow fires have us watching the sky the way we used to watch the snowpack—checking forecasts like they're water reports, because out here the two aren't that different anymore. Rain coming Tuesday might help containment or might
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Ty's Take We're in that stretch where the valley shows its true colors—one day you're watching fireworks on F Street, the next you're tracking evacuation zones that keep creeping closer to home. The Aspen Acres and Willow fires have us all