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Decision on CR 5 parallel trail postponed
After three hours of discussing a settlement over litigation involving County Road 5 on Wednesday, Ouray County commissioners continued the meeting un...
August 27, 2020
News
County to consider settling road lawsuit
Ouray County commissioners will consider a plan next week to build a 3-mile winter trail system along the top section of County Road 5 in an effort to...
August 20, 2020
New Ridgway principal prepared for storm
New Ridgway principal prepared for storm
Ridgway Secondary School's new principal is prepared to weather whatever storm may lie ahead with the reopening of school in the wake of the COVID-19 ...
August 20, 2020
News
Plans for Corbett Creek in the works
Ouray County commissioners and staff spent four hours on Tuesday in a virtual meeting with the Army Corps of Engineers to discuss possible solutions t...
August 12, 2020
News
EPA: Atlas Mill project a temporary fix
An on-scene coordinator with the Environmental Protection Agency has voiced concerns about how effective efforts at the old Atlas Mill site will be in...
August 5, 2020
News
Marijuana facility complaints continue
Ouray County commissioners fielded more complaints Tuesday about an oft-criticized marijuana grow facility on Log Hill Mesa, while also hearing concer...
July 29, 2020
Covid
Superintendent seeks patience in development of reopening plan
Ridgway School District Superintendent Susan Lacy is asking for patience from the School Board in the coming weeks as she and her staff work to develo...
July 29, 2020
Covid
Schools develop preliminary plan for reopening
Ridgway and Ouray schools both plan on providing in-person instruction to students this fall, but parents have other options if they’re not comfortabl...
July 22, 2020
News
Planning Commission trained in government ethics
The Ouray County Planning Commission received training in government ethics from County Attorney Carol Viner on Tuesday. The commission learned how ba...
July 22, 2020
News
County board may submit ballot question
Ouray County commissioners on Tuesday submitted a letter of intent to place a ballot question on the November zozo ballot, although at this point it’s...
July 15, 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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