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Perfect swarm forms near state park
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Perfect swarm forms near state park
Complaints about increased mosquito activity near Ridgway State Park have prompted officials to ask what happened with preventative treatments, which ...
July 30, 2025
Price drops for water system rebuild
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Price drops for water system rebuild
Construction for Ridgway’s new water diversion system is scheduled to begin in August at a much lower cost than expected.During a special town council...
July 30, 2025
Tacos & Beer spices up Ridgway
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Tacos & Beer spices up Ridgway
Pati Marquez and Martin Jimenez opened the first Tacos & Beer in Montrose mid-pandemic without advertising anywhere, aside from telling a few cust...
July 30, 2025
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Town seeks grant for move toward electric building regulations
The town of Ridgway will apply for a state grant to help it create and implement new all-electric building rules and possibly achieve other sustainabi...
July 30, 2025
‘It just took off very quickly’
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‘It just took off very quickly’
BLACK CANYON OF THE GUNNISON — Campgrounds filled with families just a matter of days before are surrounded by a web of spidery, blackened trees. Bare...
July 23, 2025
Hunting down the ghosts
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Hunting down the ghosts
During his time as a bus driver in Telluride, Mikael Madsen encountered many of his fellow veterans struggling to survive a Western Slope winter. At t...
July 16, 2025
Judge to rule on land condemnation
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Judge to rule on land condemnation
A district judge is expected to rule this week on whether the town of Ridgway can seize a slice of a resident’s property to create a walking trail, af...
July 16, 2025
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County to tackle problem with addresses
Sometimes it takes Ouray County emergency responders knocking on doors and waking people at three different homes at 2 a.m. to find the person who nee...
July 16, 2025
Funding issue postpones Ouray wildfire mitigation
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Funding issue postpones Ouray wildfire mitigation
A 93-acre wildfire mitigation project in the hillsides above Ouray is on hold until at least next fall, while project leaders keep their fingers cross...
July 16, 2025
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County scrambles to pay for road repairs from rockfall
Ouray County is scraping together money to pay for emergency repairs on County Road 361 while looking for ways to replenish its emergency fund in anti...
July 9, 2025
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Ridgway hotel to convert to housing
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Ridgway hotel to convert to housing
MTN Lodge owner: Change needed to sustain operations; town leaders worried
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
September 10, 2025
Ridgway’s largest hotel plans to convert to construction and hotel workforce housing for a new Four Seasons development in Mountain Village for at least the next four years. MTN Lodge signed an agreem...
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With federal funds in limbo, Ouray seeks options to reduce wildfire danger
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With federal funds in limbo, Ouray seeks options to reduce wildfire danger
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
September 10, 2025
Ouray city leaders are exploring other ways to address dead, fallen trees littering neighborhoods and hillsides now that it's unclear when a large-scale, federally funded wildfire mitigation project w...
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Interim police chief retained through Dec. 31
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
September 10, 2025
Ouray City Administrator Michelle Metteer has extended the contract of Interim Police Chief Daric Harvey through the end of the year. Harvey was hired as the interim chief in March, replacing Sgt. Gar...
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City to hear public input on wayfinding sign solutions
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City to hear public input on wayfinding sign solutions
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
September 10, 2025
The Ouray City Council will hold a work session Monday to discuss possible solutions to concerns raised by residents and business owners about new wayfinding signs installed along Main Street earlier ...
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Article about Space to Create too negative
September 10, 2025
Dear Editor: The origin and theory behind the Space To Create movement is tied to the common phenomenon where creative individuals, looking for affordable and functional space, move into semi-industri...
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