Plaindealer file photo Journalists Erin McIntyre, 39, and Mike Wiggins, 43, pictured on the day they closed on purchasing the Ouray County Plaindealer in April 2019. They moved to Ridgway from Grand Junction, where they most recently worked for The Daily Sentinel.
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2019 Top Story No. 10: Plaindealer sold to new owners
STORIES OF THE YEAR: NO. 10
In 2019, the Ouray County Plaindealer was sold to new owners, the latest in its 142-year history.
Alan Todd and Beecher Threatt, who owned 550 Publishing, sold the newspaper to journalists Mike Wiggins and Erin McIntyre on April 4.
Todd and Threatt had purchased the paper from previous owner David Mullings in October 2010, along with the Ridgway Sun, which later closed. Mullings had owned the paper since 1995, when he bought it from Guy and Marcia Wood, who had owned th...