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Ty's Take Fat bears getting fatter, tomato warriors lobbing produce at each other, and a star party coming up Friday night, which means somebody around here actually remembers what the sky looks like when the Front Range light pollution stays down valley where it belongs. This is the
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Ty's Take The Morphew case has been grinding through the system for years now, and today's bond increase to ten million dollars signals how seriously the courts are taking the charges. Judge Watkins didn't move lightly on this, and the confinement order keeps him
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Ty's Take Housing's the conversation that won't quit around here, and this week our youth liaison put numbers to what everybody already feels: young people who grew up in Salida can't afford to stay, and that's bleeding into every other
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Ty's Take Three vehicles tangled up on US-285 down in Saguache County, one person hauled to the hospital. That stretch of highway between here and Poncha Springs has always been a mixed bag, especially when folks are rolling between the valley and points south with their minds
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Ty's Take The fishing derby down by the water this week reminds you what this valley's really about, doesn't it. Somewhere between the bear warnings and the landfill reports and whatever's happening up in Saguache, kids are still learning to cast a
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Ty's Take Buena Vista finally drew a line on short-term rentals while we're still arguing about what a short-term rental even is, and that's the real story here. The housing crunch that's been grinding on both sides of the valley
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Ty's Take Road maintenance turns out to be harder than it looks when nobody can quite agree whose road it is, which is exactly the kind of problem the Board of Commissioners is sorting through with CR 295 this week. Meanwhile, the real work of keeping a valley
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Ty's Take You could parse all the council dust from the past week, the apologies and the pulled agendas and the short-term rental rules, but what it really amounts to is Salida growing too fast for the people running it to keep up. A fifty-thousand-dollar
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Ty's Take The Arkansas is doing what it does best right now, sorting itself out after last week's rain pushed debris downstream. Meanwhile, the city's sitting down to figure out what it actually costs to keep Salida running as people keep moving here, which
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Ty's Take The housing numbers out of Buena Vista land like a punch nobody wanted to see coming, and they're worth taking seriously if you live anywhere in this valley. When a town can't pencil out affordability for teachers, nurses, and the folks who
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Ty's Take Water's the conversation that never ends in this valley, and this week it's got teeth. The state's juggling calls on the Eagle River while state officials are working the phones with produce growers downstream on the Arkansas, trying to get
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Ty's Take Labor Day weekend used to mean one thing around here: the river runs full, the festival hits, and half the valley closes down because everybody's either on the water or working the crowds. These days it means that plus a yard sale to fund