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Ty's Take Building codes get boring fast until you're standing in front of one that might actually save your house. Buena Vista's move to tighten wildfire resiliency standards, paired with the county's push to finally nail down real numbers on our housing
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Ty's Take The geothermal project at Monarch Pass keeps hitting speed bumps, which shouldn't surprise anyone who's watched water politics play out in this valley for the last fifty years. Dave Held's been pushing this thing hard, and there's real
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Ty's Take The valley's been buzzing about federal pressure tied up with the Peters case, which lands different depending who you talk to and what you believe about leverage in these situations, but what matters now is moving forward, and that's exactly what the
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Ty's Take A thousand new homes in ten years sounds like progress until you live here and watch it happen. The housing study that landed this week confirms what anybody driving through town already knows: we're growing, fast, and most of us can't afford
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Ty's Take A school board trustee steps down up in Buena Vista, the seat sits empty through November, and somewhere in that gap between resignation and election you can feel the tension that's been building in these valley towns for a while now. Growth brings newcomers
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Ty's Take The Willow Fire evacuation orders are lifted, which is good news for folks who packed up and headed out, but the real conversation starts now. Wildfire in this valley doesn't just burn timber and structures, it changes how water moves downhill, how the Arkansas
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Ty's Take Water's coming down the Arkansas the way we like it this time of year, and that 2,500 acre-feet pulse hitting the river these next few weeks is exactly what the doctor ordered for August when flows usually run thin and the rafting
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Ty's Take The sky's been drawing a lot of attention around here lately, and this week you've got two chances to look up proper. There's a star party over in Buena Vista on the 12th to catch the Perseids, and then Friends
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Ty's Take Water's on everybody's mind this week, which shouldn't surprise anyone who lives in the Arkansas Valley. The boil water advisory up at Monarch and Garfield reminds us that even in a year when the upper Arkansas is running high enough
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Ty's Take The Willow Fire left its mark on this valley, and now comes the harder part: figuring out how to live with what it took. Recovery isn't just about clearing debris or replanting. It's about the ranchers who lost grazing land, the communities
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Ty's Take Out here in Chaffee County, the fair and rodeo season is never just about ribbons and bragging rights. It's the moment when kids who've spent months feeding and training an animal get to see what that work is worth, and this year
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Ty's Take The Buena Vista school board's got an open seat and they've pushed the deadline out to the end of August, which means if you've been thinking about it, you've still got time to throw your name in. It&