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By Chloe Kiparsky Special to the Plaindealer

Shop owner swaps calculator for chisel
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Shop owner swaps calculator for chisel
Jon Pollard’s life changed when he and his wife, Jessica, bought Ouray Hardware & Mercantile on May 1. For 21 years, his career had been in the H&...
July 29, 2026
New bakery humming right along
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New bakery humming right along
Taylor Popovich began her baking journey terrified that she would ruin her husband's sourdough starter when he asked her to feed it. Three years later...
July 29, 2026
Toth seeks to grow Wright Opera House’s appeal
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Toth seeks to grow Wright Opera House’s appeal
When Heather Toth moved to Ouray County in 2013, her first question was, “Where’s the theater; where’s the art space?” The arts are a necessity, not a...
July 22, 2026
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Travels influence food truck flavors
From Greece to the Caribbean, menu runs gamut at The Sweet Tea Syndicate A new, bright red food truck has rolled into town, and with it come flavors o...
June 24, 2026
New Ouray restaurant offers ‘elevated pub food’
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New Ouray restaurant offers ‘elevated pub food’
When Nancy Feeser and her husband, Mike, bought the building at 726 Main St. in Ouray in February, it was painted green with bright yellow letters ann...
June 24, 2026
Kris Batchelder’s art wanders the Wild West
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Kris Batchelder’s art wanders the Wild West
About 10 years ago, Kris Batchelder discovered her passion for paper collage. It was at Christmas, when she sat down with her son to make holiday card...
June 17, 2026
Ouray students present films at annual showcase
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Ouray students present films at annual showcase
An invisible monster terrorizes the Ouray School second grade classroom. With shaky legs and nervous eyes, second grader Logan Murch cannot escape. Af...
June 3, 2026
Todd Mayfield draws inspiration from several styles
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Todd Mayfield draws inspiration from several styles
Todd Mayfield likes to tell people he was born with a paintbrush in his ear. Mayfield said he inherited the artistic gene from his father’s side of th...
June 3, 2026
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Will Coloradans choose the ‘right to hunt’?
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Will Coloradans choose the ‘right to hunt’?
Proposed constitutional amendment asks who should dictate wildlife policy
By Chart Riggall 
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 James Hanlon 
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 James Hanlon 
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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