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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
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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
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
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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
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An application for a marijuana retail store in Colona has been withdrawn.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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Flood ravages homes
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Flood ravages homes
County deems trio of Ponderosa Village properties uninhabitable, as residents fear more debris flows imminent
By Erin McIntyre, Chart Riggall and Mike Wiggins 
August 5, 2026
When the fire raged above them on the mountain, the evacuated residents of Ponderosa Village hoped for rain. They wished for anything to help the firefighters get control of the blaze so it wouldn't b...
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County floats disaster relief sales tax
By Chart Riggall 
August 5, 2026
Draft ballot language proposes half-cent tax, with revenue split between county, city, town Ouray County commissioners are in talks to put a half-penny sales tax increase question to voters this fall ...
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Log Hill won’t join fire authority
Board: No benefit to cost, operational structure
By James Hanlon 
August 5, 2026
The Log Hill Volunteer Fire Department will not join the proposed consolidated fire and emergency medical services authority in Ouray County. Board members of the Log Hill Mesa Fire Protection Distric...
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Crews near full containment on fire
By James Hanlon 
August 5, 2026
Firefighters who are closing in on fully containing the Gold Mountain Fire have shifted their work to undoing firelines that are no longer needed to prevent erosion. “We've moved out of the suppressio...
‘We were in a panic’
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‘We were in a panic’
Flooding relocates part of Dexter Creek, forces couple to seek help with pigs
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
August 5, 2026
Hank and Betsy Nicholson were watching TV at home the night of July 26 when the skies opened up and filled Dexter Creek with rainwater, mud and debris. The creek, which serves as the Nicholsons’ only ...
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Remote-triggered avalanche in San Juan Mountains

First responders receive first COVID-19 vaccines

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