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Ty's Take County Fair season wraps this weekend with the kind of honest work that keeps showing up here every August, whether the crowds are bigger or smaller than last year. An antique tractor pull and a gymkhana at 4 Bar S, the library still doing what a
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Ty's Take The county fair Saturday is the kind of thing you either grow up understanding or you don't, and most of us around here did. Kids roping calves, families working stock together, the ranch rodeo showing what actually happens on the land instead of in
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Ty's Take The fair's coming up Friday with the junior livestock auction, and that's worth paying attention to if you've got kids in 4-H or FFA around here. Those kids put months into raising animals, learning responsibility the hard way, and
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Ty's Take Salida's city council punted on wildfire code changes this week, tabling the vote 4-1 in what felt less like a decision and more like a delay tactic. That's the thing about fire mitigation in mountain towns: everybody agrees it matters until
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Ty's Take The county fair this week does what it's always done: brings everybody together for a couple days and reminds you why you live here. You've got the 4-H kids showing rabbits and poultry, families lining the fence for the rodeo, folks
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Ty's Take The fair comes to Chaffee County this week like it always does, with 4-H kids and their rabbits and the kind of horse work that's kept ranches running through three generations of boom and bust. Meanwhile up in Buena Vista the trustees are
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Ty's Take Heart of the Rockies Medical Center's board sitting down on the 28th might seem like routine governance stuff, but there's nothing routine about running a rural hospital in 2024. HRRMC serves this whole valley, from the river towns to the ranches out
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Ty's Take A firefighter from the Knowles Fire has died, and that loss sits heavy on all of us who watched that fire tear through the valley last summer. Three others have already been lost to injuries from that same blaze, which means the real cost of that
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Ty's Take The geothermal study making news this week touches on something that matters more than most of us probably think about it. Our valley sits on real heat, the kind that could power things and bring money in, and we've also got hot springs that
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Ty's Take The fair's coming, which means dust, kids on mutton, and that particular smell of livestock and funnel cake that tells you summer's still got some living left in it. Meanwhile, the Chamber's moving into the Community Center and the Riverside
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Ty's Take The city council's water talk comes at an interesting moment, with the Arkansas running high and the valley still mostly quiet before summer really cranks up. But anybody who's paid attention to the front range squeeze, or watched property values climb around
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Ty's Take The dog attack at Riverside Park during FIBArk—a golden retriever killed by another dog in broad daylight, in front of families—is the kind of thing that catches a river town off guard. We're used to the chaos of festival week, the rafters