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In advance of Easter, ‘Godspell’ revisits Biblical parables
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By News Staff, on March 30, 2023
In advance of Easter, ‘Godspell’ revisits Biblical parables

Kathy O’Mara will be the first to tell you her next act as the artistic director for Minerva West isn’t the easiest production to piece together.

The choreography for “Godspell” is complicated, requiring actors to be in the exact right place at the exact right time. Rather than one actor speaking and finishing before another responds in sequence, the dialogue is layered.

But as O’Mara likes to say, “I don’t get myself into any mess my actors can’t get me out of.”

With Easter on th...

Will Coloradans choose the ‘right to hunt’?
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AMENDMENT 83
Will Coloradans choose the ‘right to hunt’?
Proposed constitutional amendment asks who should dictate wildlife policy
By By Chart Riggall chart@ouraynews.com 
October 14, 2026
Colorado’s vote next month on whether to amend the state Constitution by codifying the right to hunt and fish has intensified debate among hunters, conservationists and legal experts over exactly who ...
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City hit with another police suit
Ex-admin assistant claims Ouray lost personal info, violated policies
By Erin McIntyre erin@ouraynews.com 
October 14, 2026
The city of Ouray faces another lawsuit from an ex-employee of the police department. In a complaint filed last week in district court, former Ouray Police Department administrative assistant Lucy Ree...
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County OKs police deal
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
October 14, 2026
Ouray County commissioners approved a revised contract Tuesday that would make the Ouray County Sheriff’s Office the full-time provider of police services in the city of Ouray — but at a higher cost t...
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In light of budget cuts, Padgett takes 10% salary reduction
By By James Hanlon james@ouraynews.com 
October 14, 2026
Ouray County Commissioner Lynn Padgett will take a voluntary 10% salary reduction next year in a show of solidarity with other departments that took cuts for the 2027 budget. Padgett said budget reduc...
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School district to sell workforce unit
Pay raise bumps Ridgway staff out of affordable housing income bracket
By By James Hanlon james@ouraynews.com 
October 14, 2026
The Ridgway School Board plans to sell the school district’s last affordable housing unit and rejected a land donation that could have been used to build more housing at a board meeting Oct. 8. No sta...
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AMENDMENT 82
Voters to decide whether to put right to natural gas in constitution
By Mark Jaffe The Colorado Sun 
October 14, 2026
Amendment 82 would add a right to natural gas in the state constitution at a time when Colorado is pushing both in policy and legislation to cut the use of natural gas as part of the state’s goal to r...
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Runner’s strong season continues
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Runner’s strong season continues
October 14, 2026
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Ridgway soccer falls to league rival Telluride
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Ridgway soccer falls to league rival Telluride
October 14, 2026
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AMENDMENT 84
Measure would require personal info on ballots
By By Colleen Slevin The Colorado Sun 
October 14, 2026
Colorado voters will decide in November whether to require that people provide partial Social Security or driver’s license numbers, in addition to their signature, when returning mail ballots in order...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
No, my mother didn’t paint Beaumont pink
October 14, 2026
Dear Editor: Comparing MTN Lodge to the Beaumont Hotel is as absurd as comparing Ouray to Ridgway. John Kuijvenhoven's scurrilous, out-of-the-blue letter was an attempt to damage my mother's reputatio...
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Commissioners betray Log Hill Village
October 14, 2026
Dear Editor: I saw this in the Plaindealer article regarding the Ouray County budget crisis: “Besides reductions, commissioners are considering a radical one-time revenue source that could make up a s...
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