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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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Ridgway sues MTN Lodge
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Ridgway sues MTN Lodge
Town seeks payment of sales, lodging taxes; hotel calls lawsuit 'misguided'
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
April 1, 2026
The town of Ridgway is suing the owners of MTN Lodge over their plans to use the hotel as workforce housing for the next several years, aiming to suspend operations and demanding they pay lodging and ...
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