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Ty's Take The housing authority holding rents steady at Jane's Place and The 505 next year is the kind of news that doesn't make headlines scream, but it matters more than most people realize. When you've got young families and service workers
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Ty's Take The SteamPlant's got dog races lined up for Oktoberfest, which is either the best idea anybody's had all year or proof that we've finally lost our minds from too much sun and river water, and honestly it could go either
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Ty's Take Two pieces landed today that deserve more than a glance. The Ark Valley Voice ran deep on Christian nationalism and local extremist ties, the kind of story that makes people uncomfortable because it puts names and faces on ideas that used to stay abstract. Same paper
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Ty's Take Three different surveys are circulating around town right now, each asking what matters most to Salida and Chaffee County. The candidates forum up in Buena Vista this Thursday will tell you what politicians think you care about. The community priorities survey wants to hear straight from
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Ty's Take Mountain Valley Transit cutting routes because the money dried up in Washington is the kind of thing that happens to places like ours, and it stings different than it does elsewhere. In a town where half the people don't have reliable vehicles and the
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Ty's Take The valley's got a lot on its plate this fall, and most of it matters more than usual. School boards are navigating outside pressure on student events, health care officials are chasing grant money to keep rural medicine alive, and the county's
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Ty's Take There's a lot of talk in the letters this week about what "responsible" means when it comes to building in Chaffee County, and that's worth paying attention to because the word gets stretched like taffy depending on who's
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Ty's Take The Chaffee County Youth Alliance is asking us to think about what we're actually doing for the kids around here, and that's worth taking seriously. Violence, escalation, patterns that repeat, feedback forms that get passed around, action plans that sit in filing
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Ty's Take Downtown's getting a mural, the hospital just cleared six figures for a new infusion center, and Search and Rescue picked up another four grand at a car show, which means this town is still doing what it does best: showing up for its own.
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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