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Swiss Village residents secure big state grant, set to close June 12
May 28, 2025
For residents of Ouray’s Swiss Village Mobile Home Park, pulling together everything that’s needed to buy the land underneath their homes is like assembling a giant jigsaw puzzle. After spending nearl...
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May 28, 2025
A renewed water lease with the Bureau of Reclamation may prove more critical for Ouray County water users this year as drought conditions intensify. The agreement signed on May 13 is the third renewal...
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Ridgway solar energy company owner worried; commissioner criticizes congressman's vote
May 28, 2025
Josh Shipley knows his customers — and their motivations. The vast majority of people who enlist the owner of Alternative Power Enterprises to install solar panels say they’re doing so because it’s en...
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PREP ROUNDUP
May 28, 2025
A longtime goal for the Ridgway High School girls’ soccer program was to make it to the second round of the state playoffs, travel to the Front Range to take on one of the top seeds and put up a compe...
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May 28, 2025
Stan Frymann has donated “about the most beautiful place you could find” to Ouray County. Frymann donated the six-acre Tip Top Mine, and eventually the county hopes to swap the property with the U.S. ...
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International smash hit 'Hold on to Your Butts' makes Colorado debut this weekend
May 28, 2025
Some people take trips and bring back postcards, refrigerator magnets, snow globes or kitschy keychains for their friends. Kate Kissingford went on a trip to Scotland last summer and brought back an e...
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Drug gaining traction for mental health treatment
May 28, 2025
After years of working to treat anxiety and depression with standard medication, Brie Silverman decided she wanted better results for some of her patients. Silverman, who has worked for eight years in...
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Rebranded eatery ditches New Mexican fare, coffee, focuses on pie crust varieties
May 28, 2025
Corkscrew Tavern Pizzeria — formerly Colorado Boy Southwest Pub and Corkscrew Coffee — is shedding its side ventures and zeroing in on ‘za. The eatery at 513 Main St. in Ouray has taken many forms ove...
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Ridgway Hardware celebrates anniversary June 14
May 28, 2025
Longtime patrons of Ridgway Hardware may recall the ranchers who gathered most mornings around an old stove in the middle of the store, puffing cigarettes, sipping coffee and solving the world’s probl...
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After 15 years of drawing regional customers with signature ceviche, owner retires, returns home
May 28, 2025
Editor's note: The email address to contact Luis at the end of the article had a typo and has been corrected. For 15 years, customers drove from Grand Junction, Durango and other corners of southwest ...
