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Ouray volleyball returns a year after getting spiked
Ouray volleyball returns a year after getting spiked
[tecnavia_gallery slug='ouray-volleyball-returns-a-year-after-getting-spiked-gallery' view='carousel']High school girls volleyball has returned to Our...
September 28, 2022
Feds: Hunters ignited 2019 fire
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Feds: Hunters ignited 2019 fire
[tecnavia_gallery slug='feds-hunters-ignited-2019-fire-gallery' view='carousel']EDITOR'S NOTE:  Nearly three years after the Cow Creek Fire torched ab...
September 28, 2022
News
Town turns down mixed-use project again
The Ridgway Planning Commission turned down a proposed mixed-use development northeast of the stoplight for the second time in four months, this time ...
September 28, 2022
News
City, county split on funding ask
The Ouray City Council voted unanimously to contribute $100,000 toward the Home Trust of Ouray County’s purchase of a six-unit apartment building, whi...
September 21, 2022
News
Ridgway approves plans for visitor center
The Ridgway Town Council approved an updated plan for the Visitor Center and Heritage Park, a project expected to cost more than $2 million over a fou...
September 21, 2022
News
Data show areas of improvement for 7th district
For the first time, details about convictions, case dispositions, and other aspects of the criminal justice process in the 7th Judicial District have ...
September 15, 2022
News
Schools outscore state on annual tests
In the first year of typical standardized testing since 2019, local students mostly outperformed the state on Colorado Measures of Academic Success (C...
September 8, 2022
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Schools return without COVID regulations
Kindergarteners squirmed and fidgeted on a colorful rug in the Ridgway Elementary School library Tuesday, sitting crosslegged and elbow-to-elbow as li...
September 8, 2022
Tri-district team makes a run for it
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Tri-district team makes a run for it
[tecnavia_gallery slug='tri-district-team-makes-a-run-for-it-gallery' view='carousel']As they finished cross country practice on Friday afternoon, Can...
September 8, 2022
CEO: Cedar Point merger to offer more medical services, efficiencies
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CEO: Cedar Point merger to offer more medical services, efficiencies
Mountain Medical Center patients will have access to broader services and benefit from integrated health records through the merger with Montrose’s Ce...
September 8, 2022
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Ridgway sues MTN Lodge
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Ridgway sues MTN Lodge
Town seeks payment of sales, lodging taxes; hotel calls lawsuit 'misguided'
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
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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Board rebukes commissioner
Niece, Nauer censure Padgett for secretly recording closed-door meeting
By By Lia Salvatierra and Erin McIntyre lia@ouraynews.com erin@ouraynews.com 
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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Proposed merger could make fire chief highest paid official
Latest draft bases members' voting power on financial contributions
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
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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Jury convicts mother in retaliation case
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Jury convicts mother in retaliation case
By Erin McIntyre and Mike Wiggins erin@ouraynews.com mike@ouraynews.com 
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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EMS moves overnight quarters with help from chamber grant
By Deb Hurley Brobst Special to the Plaindealer 
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 ...
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