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Spotlight on the Arts: The Closet Potter
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Spotlight on the Arts: The Closet Potter
When Joan Gibson-Bevier first sat down at a pottery wheel in 1976, she knew she had found her passion. Forty- nine years later, she runs her own busin...
July 23, 2025
Meet your neighbor: Robert Stoufer
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Meet your neighbor: Robert Stoufer
Name: Robert Stoufer Age: 73 Lives in: Ouray When did you come to Ouray? I studied to be a geologist, but I never did geology for a living. I went to ...
July 2, 2025
Meet your neighbor: Amy Exstrum
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Meet your neighbor: Amy Exstrum
Name: Amy Exstrum Lives in: Ouray Age: 61 What’s your profession? Well, I’m retired now, but I spent many years as a vocational home economics teacher...
June 11, 2025
Meet your neighbor: Rob Rose
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Meet your neighbor: Rob Rose
Editor's note: During focus group discussions we held earlier this year, to gather feedback for our upcoming redesign of the newspaper, we heard from ...
May 14, 2025
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Seed money helps teens sprout businesses
Neva Hines spent hours looking for internships her junior year at Ridgway Secondary School. She contacted at least eight businesses, and most of the t...
February 26, 2025
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Students to showcase work at fair
The public will be able to view a showcase of student inventions, science experiments, art projects and beyond at the second annual Uncompahgre STEAM ...
January 29, 2025
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Nature photography exhibit opens in Ouray
A new photography exhibit will transport viewers to nature landscapes at the Wright Opera House. Shanda Akin and Betsy Botsford’s photography show, "S...
November 6, 2024
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ONCE TEAMMATES, NOW FRIENDLY RIVALS
The track and field and cross country athletes from Ridgway and Ouray who once were teammates now compete against each other. The split in the teams e...
October 23, 2024
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City: No to more remote governance
Ouray council rejects member's request to attend more meetings from afar
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
March 4, 2026
The Ouray City Council on Monday unanimously rejected a councilor’s request for greater leeway to participate in council meetings remotely, agreeing it’s vital for elected officials to face constituen...
A dilemma 25 years in the making
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4-H EVENT CENTER
A dilemma 25 years in the making
Commissioners determined to improve fiscal health of facility plagued by management, use questions since its donation
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
March 4, 2026
The dilemma of how to manage, finance and use the Ouray County 4-H Event Center is coming full circle, reflecting conversations that happened more than 25 years ago when the facility was donated to th...
Pool house design draws varied reactions
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Pool house design draws varied reactions
Residents alternately praise, pan contemporary appearance, debate proposed community space
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
March 4, 2026
Ouray County residents peppered architects and Ouray parks and recreation officials with questions and feedback about a proposed new pool house at the Ouray Hot Springs Pool, revealing a broad spectru...
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