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Erin McIntyre

Ouray School Board candidate profile: Phylis Fagrelius
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Ouray School Board candidate profile: Phylis Fagrelius
Phylis Fagrelius has learned an important lesson, living in Ouray for the past 37 years. “The more you give, the more you get back,” she said. It’s so...
October 15, 2025
Ouray School Board candidate profile: Andrea Calhoon Meruelo
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Ouray School Board candidate profile: Andrea Calhoon Meruelo
It wasn’t long after Andrea Calhoon Meruelo graduated from Ouray School in 1999 that she realized she received a pretty stellar education at the tiny ...
October 15, 2025
Ouray School Board candidate profile: Tony Schmidt
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Ouray School Board candidate profile: Tony Schmidt
Tony Schmidt remembers how Ouray School used to feel like it was the center of the community. When he was a kid, he saw community members coming to th...
October 15, 2025
Man arrested in Ouray by immigration enforcement officers
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Man arrested in Ouray by immigration enforcement officers
Federal immigration officials detained at least one person in Ouray this morning, according to eyewitness reports which have been confirmed by the Our...
August 7, 2025
No fake AI here — just humans doing their best
Columns, Opinion
No fake AI here — just humans doing their best
I read with interest a summer reading list published earlier this year in the Philadelphia Inquirer, and made a note to check out Andy Weir's new book...
July 23, 2025
Columns, Opinion
An unforeseeable delay with your Plaindealer
Dear Readers, If you’re reading this message in the e-edition of the newspaper, great. That means you probably got your paper when you wanted to read ...
July 16, 2025
A patriotic way to celebrate the Fourth
Columns, Opinion
A patriotic way to celebrate the Fourth
"Are you the newspaper? Are we gonna be in the paper?" These are questions I hear when people see me taking photos at parades. I usually shrug my shou...
July 9, 2025
Please join us Saturday for film, journalism talk
Columns, Opinion
Please join us Saturday for film, journalism talk
When filmmaker Heather Courtney set out to make a film about rural America, she decided to do it through the lens of a local newspaper. She visited a ...
June 25, 2025
News
Police investigating fireworks shot at homes
Police are searching for suspects who shot a barrage of fireworks onto homes on Sunday night, sparking fires in the southern part of Ouray. The explos...
June 17, 2025
MURAL IN BLOOM
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MURAL IN BLOOM
Artist Yulia Avgustinovich works on the mural she was commissioned to paint on the southeast side of the Space to Create building in Ridgway on Monday...
June 12, 2025
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Ridgway girls run down state title
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Ridgway girls run down state title
Young team blows past competition to hoist Class 2A cross country trophy
By By Matt Meyer Special to the Plaindealer 
November 5, 2025
There isn’t a perfect translation for “hill” in Chinese. That's something Natasha Hessler discovered when she arrived at the famous creek crossing during the Colorado State Cross Country Championship ...
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Underwood elected mayor
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ELECTION 2025
Underwood elected mayor
Hart joins council, which needs to fill two spots
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
November 5, 2025
Ouray City Councilor Michael Underwood won election to the mayor’s seat Tuesday night, succeeding on a campaign that emphasized fiscal conservatism and a vow to fix what he perceives as a disconnect b...
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Property tax hikes pass for cemetery, fire districts
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
November 5, 2025
Voters Tuesday night approved tax increases for the Cedar Hill Cemetery District and the Ouray Fire Protection District. A measure to increase the cemetery district’s mill levy from 0.33 mills to 1 mi...
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ELECTION 2025
Voters approve new county lodging tax
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
November 5, 2025
Voters in unincorporated Ouray County approved a new 6% lodging tax that is expected to provide more than $182,000 in additional funding during a tight 2026 budget year and into the future. The measur...
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ELECTION 2025
Fagrelius, Meruelo win school board seats
By Erin McIntyre erin@ouraynews.com 
November 5, 2025
Ouray voters have chosen two former educators to join the Ouray School Board, according to unofficial results from Tuesday’s election. Three candidates competed for two open seats on the school board,...
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