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Just like four years ago, Democrat Lynn Padgett has Ridgway-area voters primarily to thank for lifting her to victory and securing a second four-year ...

December 18, 2024

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Ridgway athletic complex near full funding threshold

If advocates for a new athletic complex behind Ridgway Secondary School were running a 5-kilometer race to raise the funding needed for the project, t...

December 18, 2024

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City boosts housing help for administrator

To bring aboard a new city administrator in 2020, Ouray city officials knew they would have to include some perks that, at the time, were unique to th...

December 18, 2024

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Minturn manager accepts Ouray job

Minturn Town Administrator Michelle Metteer will become Ouray’s next city administrator, transitioning from one small mountain community that boasts a...

December 11, 2024

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‘I’m here to say, please help us’

Faced with the prospect of unaffordable spikes in rent or being forced to move out of Ouray altogether, Swiss Village Mobile Home Park residents plead...

December 4, 2024

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Council offers top Ouray job to Minturn administrator

The Ouray City Council unanimously agreed Wednesday to offer the city administrator job to Minturn Town Administrator Michelle Metteer, calling her th...

November 27, 2024

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Ex-chief says city defamed him

Former Ouray Police Chief Jeff Wood filed a federal lawsuit against the city last week, alleging city leaders made defamatory remarks and violated his...

November 27, 2024

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Chiropractor opens Ouray practice

Gil Kentof didn’t know it at the time, but a car accident when he was 17 put him on a career path that ultimately led him to Ouray. The wreck left him...

November 27, 2024

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Mobile home park sale talks stall

The residents of Swiss Village Mobile Home Park in Ouray have reached a stalemate in their effort to buy the land underneath their homes, potentially ...

November 20, 2024

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Finalists make pitch for top job

The elevator pitches are done. The jam-covered brie, crackers, fruit and brownies left over from the community reception were eaten up. The 8 a.m. int...

November 20, 2024

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Easter egg hunters hop to it

April 8, 2026

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Town mayor re-elected in landslide

Voters select incumbents Grambley, Scoville, newcomer Greenwood

By By Lia Salvatierra and Erin McIntyre lia@ouraynews.com erin@ouraynews.com

April 8, 2026

John Clark will continue serving as Ridgway mayor, defeating his only challenger in 14 years since he was first elected, newcomer Tia Mihelarakis. Clark received 321 votes to Mihelarakis’ 51 votes. Cl...

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Does Ouray need a new pool house? Council, public split

By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com

April 8, 2026

A series of tweaks to the design of a proposed new pool house at the Ouray Hot Springs Pool has exposed a deep divide among Ouray City Council members and the public over whether the city should proce...

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Council absorbs more criticism over police

Employee pleads 'give us answers' as city OKs higher reimbursement rate for law enforcement services

By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com

April 8, 2026

The Ouray City Council on Monday agreed to pay Ouray County more for providing law enforcement services in the city, but not before absorbing another round of blistering criticism from the public and ...

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County, Forest Service to discuss Yankee Boy closure next week

By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com

April 8, 2026

Ouray County commissioners will hold a work session next week with the U.S. Forest Service to discuss their plan to close the upper portion of the road into Yankee Boy Basin to reduce environmental an...

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Remote-triggered avalanche in San Juan Mountains

First responders receive first COVID-19 vaccines