Year formed: 2022 What does your organization do for Ouray County? Minerva West provides performing arts opportunities for any members of the Ouray Co...
December 21, 2022
Editor's note: The Ouray County Plaindealer is featuring nonprofit organizations which are based in Ouray County and serve Ouray County in a series of...
December 21, 2022
Editor's note: The Ouray County Plaindealer is featuring nonprofit organizations which are based in Ouray County and serve Ouray County in a series of...
December 21, 2022
Editor's note: The Ouray County Plaindealer is featuring nonprofit organizations which are based in Ouray County and serve Ouray County in a series of...
December 21, 2022
News
Frustrated Ouray County officials agreed to temporarily extend an agreement for Ouray Silver Mines to maintain Camp Bird Road in the winter on Tuesday...
December 21, 2022
News
Controversy over winter maintenance on the upper portion of County Road 5 is an issue that just won’t die. Over several years, the road section has be...
December 21, 2022
News
When COVID-19 first struck and people started spending more time outside, Ridgway-based contractor Matt McIsaac headed to the town skate park – and fe...
December 21, 2022
Editor's note: The Ouray County Plaindealer is featuring nonprofit organizations which are based in Ouray County and serve Ouray County in a series of...
December 14, 2022
Editor's note: The Ouray County Plaindealer is featuring nonprofit organizations which are based in Ouray County and serve Ouray County in a series of...
December 14, 2022
Editor's note: The Ouray County Plaindealer is featuring nonprofit organizations which are based in Ouray County and serve Ouray County in a series of...
December 14, 2022
News
Reclamation part of orphaned and abandoned well program
September 4, 2026
It’s not what you think. A towering steel drill rig that’s been perched along the side of U.S. Highway 550 in recent weeks isn’t probing for gas, or oil, or even a route to the Far East. The operation...
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September 4, 2026
President Donald Trump has signed off on a major disaster declaration for the Gold Mountain and Aspen Acres fires that unlocks millions of dollars in Federal Emergency Management Agency relief funds f...
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Senator tours flood-damaged areas, surveys planned fire mitigation efforts
September 2, 2026
U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper said Friday he was optimistic the Trump administration will declare the Gold Mountain Fire a federal disaster, arguing Congress “wouldn’t settle for” the White House withho...
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EMS paramedic, deputy emergency manager sent home days after fire started
September 2, 2026
Ouray County has had two emergency-related employees on paid administrative leave since the early days of the Gold Mountain Fire. A third employee, Road and Bridge Superintendent Ty Barger, was placed...
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'You guys are in crisis,' Hickenlooper tells proprietors wrestling with aftermath of Gold Mountain Fire
September 2, 2026
Ouray County business owners bent the ear of U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper on Friday, sharing stories of declining profits and mass cancellations in the wake of the Gold Mountain Fire in the hopes the D...
