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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
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
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
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
News
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An application for a marijuana retail store in Colona has been withdrawn.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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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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