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Katie Langford Special to the Plaindealer

Spotlight on the Arts: Josef Mayfield
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Spotlight on the Arts: Josef Mayfield
Since moving back to Ouray County just over a year ago, local artist Josef Mayfield hasn’t let off the gas pedal. When not at his day job as deputy co...
September 20, 2023
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Music & Makers Festival celebrates arts
The inaugural Ouray Music & Makers Festival is set to bring together artists, performers, musicians and creatives from across the county and state...
August 30, 2023
Spotlight on the Arts: Floyd Day
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Spotlight on the Arts: Floyd Day
Floyd Day’s artistic muse hasn’t always been cows, despite drawing and painting nearly 1,000 of them since moving to Ouray County in 2000. Before movi...
August 23, 2023
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A STORY OF HEALING, HISTORY
The stone building at 420 Sixth Ave. in Ouray has plenty of stories to tell. Built in 1887 as the St. Joseph's Miners' Hospital, it now helps keep loc...
August 2, 2023
Spotlight on the Arts: Enda Junkins
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Spotlight on the Arts: Enda Junkins
Anyone who spends enough time in Ouray probably knows Enda Junkins as a villain. A nationally recognized psychotherapist and motivational speaker who ...
July 19, 2023
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‘This is the challenge that I needed in my life’
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‘This is the challenge that I needed in my life’
Ouray Ice Park's new executive director trims staff, seeks more buy-in from recreational climbers amid financial crunch
By By Chart Riggall chart@ouraynews.com 
October 21, 2026
In the waning weeks of the 2019 ice climbing season, a 27-year-old Tres Barbatelli stood at the bottom of the Uncompahgre Gorge wondering what he’d just done. Minutes before, he’d rappelled down into ...
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Police department dissolved
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Police department dissolved
Council turns over services to sheriff; remaining employee laid off
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
October 21, 2026
The city of Ouray terminated the sole employee of its police department and turned over its police services to the Ouray County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday, officially dissolving a stand-alone law enf...
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Paramedic fired after three months’ leave
Commissioners pause refilling second EMS vacancy
By By James Hanlon james@ouraynews.com 
October 21, 2026
A paramedic for Ouray County Emergency Medical Services, who has been on administrative leave since the Gold Mountain Fire, was fired last week after a meeting with county administration went awry. Jo...
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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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