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Karen Risch

Late monsoon welcome, but it won’t fix deficit
Columns, Opinion
Late monsoon welcome, but it won’t fix deficit
This year's missing monsoon finally showed up the night of Aug. 22. By the next morning, Saturday, a much wetter, greener, cooler world greeted Ouray ...
August 27, 2025
A disappointingly dry start to monsoon season
Columns, Opinion
A disappointingly dry start to monsoon season
Ouray gardeners, like their counterparts across the Four Corners states, count on the Southwest Monsoon from July to September.In the city of Ouray it...
July 30, 2025
Will Ouray County benefit from Weather Service rehires?
Columns, Opinion
Will Ouray County benefit from Weather Service rehires?
For six lovely days, June 2-7, our San Juan earth was cool and wet. Local peaks regained their winter white.Ouray days averaged 65 degrees, 11 degrees...
June 25, 2025
Drought reigns as county barrels toward summer
Columns, Opinion
Drought reigns as county barrels toward summer
Ouray County, along with much of far western Colorado and other Southwestern states, is now in severe drought status, according to NOAA’s U.S. West Dr...
May 28, 2025
Brief warm spells, plenty of snow — yes, it’s April
Columns, Opinion
Brief warm spells, plenty of snow — yes, it’s April
April, a notorious trickster of a month, has lived up to its reputation this year.Fine hot spells, not-so-good freezing temperatures, ample snow and, ...
April 23, 2025
Spring is here, but rain may stay away in April, May
Columns, Opinion
Spring is here, but rain may stay away in April, May
Spring has sprung: Baby birds chirp riotously in birdhouses, leftover snow vanishes under an ascending sun, crocus and forsythia flutter in the March ...
March 26, 2025
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Ridgway hotel to convert to housing
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Ridgway hotel to convert to housing
MTN Lodge owner: Change needed to sustain operations; town leaders worried
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
September 10, 2025
Ridgway’s largest hotel plans to convert to construction and hotel workforce housing for a new Four Seasons development in Mountain Village for at least the next four years. MTN Lodge signed an agreem...
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With federal funds in limbo, Ouray seeks options to reduce wildfire danger
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With federal funds in limbo, Ouray seeks options to reduce wildfire danger
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
September 10, 2025
Ouray city leaders are exploring other ways to address dead, fallen trees littering neighborhoods and hillsides now that it's unclear when a large-scale, federally funded wildfire mitigation project w...
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News
Interim police chief retained through Dec. 31
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
September 10, 2025
Ouray City Administrator Michelle Metteer has extended the contract of Interim Police Chief Daric Harvey through the end of the year. Harvey was hired as the interim chief in March, replacing Sgt. Gar...
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City to hear public input on wayfinding sign solutions
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City to hear public input on wayfinding sign solutions
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
September 10, 2025
The Ouray City Council will hold a work session Monday to discuss possible solutions to concerns raised by residents and business owners about new wayfinding signs installed along Main Street earlier ...
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Article about Space to Create too negative
September 10, 2025
Dear Editor: The origin and theory behind the Space To Create movement is tied to the common phenomenon where creative individuals, looking for affordable and functional space, move into semi-industri...
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