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By MarcusonNovember 3, 2023
Ouray Halloween 2023
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    Cleared for takeoff
    Main, News...
    Cleared for takeoff
    November 4, 2026
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    Sales tax measure fails
    By By Chart Riggall chart@ouraynews.com 
    November 4, 2026
    Ouray County voters on Tuesday rejected a proposal to raise the local sales tax rate by 0.5% in order to fund future disaster relief, dashing county officials’ hopes to find a new revenue source for e...
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    Ridgway teen memorialized
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    Ridgway teen memorialized
    Killed in climbing accident, Matsuda remembered for loyalty, passion, work ethic
    By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
    November 4, 2026
    After pulling a 16-hour shift on this summer’s Gold Mountain Fire, Bennett Raley knew he could trust and rely on his young teammate. The volunteer firefighter with the Log Hill Volunteer Fire Departme...
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    Can public save Alpine Ranger program?
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    Can public save Alpine Ranger program?
    With government bowing out, group seeks to raise money for backcountry patrols
    By By Chart Riggall chart@ouraynews.com 
    November 4, 2026
    With a lack of government funding to continue Ouray County’s Alpine Ranger patrols next year, the task has fallen to locals to raise enough money – $67,000, to be exact – to keep the backcountry patro...
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    Jury finds man not guilty in 2023 sex assault case
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    Jury finds man not guilty in 2023 sex assault case
    By By Erin McIntyre and James Hanlon erin@ouraynews.com james@ouraynews.com 
    November 4, 2026
    A Montrose County jury found the stepson of the former Ouray police chief not guilty of sexual assault Wednesday, at the end of his eight-day criminal trial. The jury handed down the verdict after del...
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    Letters, Opinion...
    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
    Reserve backcountry for lower-impact uses
    November 4, 2026
    Dear Editor: The Oct. 29 Ridgway Ouray Community Council meeting to fund the Alpine Ranger Program reveals questions about the problem and the proposed solution. Should the public be asked to pay for ...
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    Councilors shut out dissenting voice
    November 4, 2026
    Dear Editor: I guess some of the Ouray city councilors don't want live in the same society as I want to live in. A society with civil discourse, discussion and sometimes listening to a point of view t...
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    Looking Back
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    Looking Back
    By Compiled from the files of The Ouray County Herald, The Ridgway Sun, and The Ouray County Plaindealer 
    November 4, 2026
    Compiled from the files of The Ouray County Herald, The Ridgway Sun, and The Ouray County Plaindealer 60 Years Ago November 3, 1966 Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Easton from Ontario, California, have purchased...
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    Point remains: Beware the strain on business
    November 4, 2026
    Dear Editor: Well, I certainly seem to have stirred up the paint. My recent suggestion that Ben Jackson might consider painting MTN Lodge pink has produced an unexpected development. Jenny Lee Phillip...
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    County proceeds with EMS-fire merger
    Commissioners give blessing to plan after leaders trim overall budget, general fund contribution
    By By James Hanlon james@ouraynews.com 
    November 4, 2026
    Ouray County commissioners plan to move forward with merging Ouray County Emergency Medical Services under the Ridgway Fire Protection District at the beginning of the year after EMS updated its budge...
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    Cello recital meets clown show this weekend
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    Cello recital meets clown show this weekend
    'Delusions and Grandeur' offers poignant, irreverent look at the defintion — and cost — of success
    By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
    November 4, 2026
    Karen Hall has played the cello since she was 8 years old, when her mother drove her to the neighborhood elementary school for string classes, lugging a case with an instrument roughly the same size a...
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