Editor's note: The Ouray County Plaindealer is pleased to feature local artists in an occasional feature, 'Spotlight on the Arts.' This is the fourth ...
December 14, 2022
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The Ridgway Fire District is gearing up to hire new staff, budgeting $350,000 toward this aim in 2023, following the landslide victory of its ballot q...
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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2022
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The city of Ouray plans to spend tens of thousands of dollars to improve the fitness center at the Ouray Hot Springs Pool, but what the upgraded facil...
December 8, 2022
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Ouray County Clerk and Recorder Michelle Nauer has fielded about 50 emails, mostly from senders outside of the county, regarding the mandatory 3rd Con...
December 8, 2022
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Ouray County commissioners unanimously passed a 2023 budget on Tuesday that utilizes over $800,000 from the county’s fund balance and provides for thr...
December 8, 2022
It can feel like everybody knows everybody in a small community like Ouray County, and Colin Sullivan picked the Sherbino Theater's holiday play “Bob’...
November 30, 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...
November 30, 2022
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Town seeks payment of sales, lodging taxes; hotel calls lawsuit 'misguided'
April 1, 2026
The town of Ridgway is suing the owners of MTN Lodge over their plans to use the hotel as workforce housing for the next several years, aiming to suspend operations and demanding they pay lodging and ...
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Niece, Nauer censure Padgett for secretly recording closed-door meeting
April 1, 2026
Two Ouray County commissioners publicly reprimanded their fellow commissioner after discovering she secretly recorded an executive session last week. Portions of the audio from that executive session ...
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Latest draft bases members' voting power on financial contributions
April 1, 2026
The current proposal to combine fire and emergency medical services entities in Ouray County could eventually make the new fire chief the highest-paid public official in the county and may base partic...
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April 1, 2026
A jury has convicted a former Ouray woman of retaliating against another woman who accused her son of sexual assault in 2023. Jurors deliberated for about an hour on March 26 before finding Kristyn Tr...
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April 1, 2026
Ouray County Emergency Medical Services is moving its sleeping quarters for on-call staff in Ouray into the former Public Health office location, with donations providing rent assistance. An EMT will ...
