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Ice Park director boasts experience
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Ice Park director boasts experience
The Ouray Ice Park has a new executive director with plenty of experience to take it through the next year of uncertainty and look ahead to a future o...
September 24, 2020
News
After delays, county approves trail to settle lawsuit
Ouray County reached a settlement agreement Wednesday with upper County Road 5 property owners who filed suit against the county in January 2019. Comm...
September 24, 2020
News
County to repost road superintendent job
After nearly a year without a full-time road and bridge superintendent, Ouray County commissioners held a work session on Tuesday to outline how they ...
September 17, 2020
Covid
Parent: Mask enforcement causing teacher stress
A parent and former elementary school teacher told Ridgway School Board members last week she is concerned about the stress teachers are feeling in en...
September 17, 2020
News
County road plowing conflict drags on
Ouray County commissioners continued discussions over a proposed settlement on the lawsuit involving County Road 5 snow plowing this week. A possible ...
September 17, 2020
Covid
Under limits, county fair carries on
Though the fair will look different this year due to COVlD-19 and its limitations, the show will go on. The livestock show, that is, and the sale afte...
September 3, 2020
Covid
With help, Ridgway schools reopen
Superintendent Susan Lacy and board members praised the accomplishments of staff in the days leading up to the reopening of Ridgway Schools at a board...
September 3, 2020
Three decades of Bizarreness
Three decades of Bizarreness
When Lupita’s Bizarre Bazaar owner Susan Baker came to Ridgway in 1989, she saw potential in the little “cowboy town” to be what it is today.  And whe...
September 2, 2020
News
Enrollment up as Ouray School set to reopen
Ouray School will begin the year with more students than it did last year, with 16 more students than it had previously. The increase more than compen...
August 27, 2020
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Colona marijuana store application pulled
An application for a marijuana retail store in Colona has been withdrawn. Kind Castle applicant John Dyet on Tuesday thanked commissioners for their t...
August 27, 2020
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Smoke blankets Ouray County as wildfires burn in region
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Smoke blankets Ouray County as wildfires burn in region
By Mike Wiggins 
July 11, 2025
Heavy smoke and haze choked Ouray County for a second straight day Friday as a series of wildfires churned through tinder-dry trees and brush in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah. The Colora...
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Signs of trouble in Ouray
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Signs of trouble in Ouray
City halts production after public backlash over size, appearance of wayfinding signs
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
July 9, 2025
Ouray business owners and residents threw up a symbolic stop sign in front of the city council on Monday, urging city leaders to pause or altogether abandon plans to install dozens of new wayfinding s...
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Go Fourth and celebrate
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Go Fourth and celebrate
July 9, 2025
The crowd cheers as a fire department tanker truck sprays the wet side of the street during the July 4 parade in Ouray. Ouray Tourism and Destination Marketing Director Kailey Rhoten said cellular dat...
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County scrambles to pay for road repairs from rockfall
Leaders pull from multiple sources to cover $300,000 tab, look to replenish emergency fund
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
July 9, 2025
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 anticipation of other disasters. During a work session...
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Hot Springs moves forward with upgrades
Council OKs bathhouse design contract; pipeline replacement, heat exchange system on tap this fall
By By Lia Salvatierra and Mike Wiggins lia@ouraynews.com mike@ouraynews.com 
July 9, 2025
A series of much-anticipated upgrades to the Ouray Hot Springs Pool is coming together, with the city beginning infrastructure replacements this fall and searching for ways to pay for building a new b...
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