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Covid
Pandemic forces shift of holiday plans
For five years, Carolyn Snowbarger watched as her Thanksgiving dinner grew, adding more chairs around the table. Last year, 37 people gathered at her ...
November 19, 2020
Covid
Ridgway rides out quarantine
Shawnn Row waited by his computer Tuesday morning, a Zoom window open and ready for students to pop in with questions. Instead of walking up to his de...
November 19, 2020
Covid
Governments rush to spend relief funds
Ouray County officials are working to spend more than $400,000 in federal coronavirus relief funds, including purchasing body cameras, technology and ...
November 12, 2020
With virus, more questions than answers
Covid
With virus, more questions than answers
The day before I flew to Colorado in May, I spent a long evening at my grandma’s house, wearing a mask and talking from across the room, trying to fig...
September 30, 2020
Market through the roof
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Market through the roof
[tecnavia_gallery slug='market-through-the-roof-gallery' view='carousel']For years, Dana and Andy Rodes talked about retiring in Colorado. A Colorado ...
September 28, 2020
Rally calls for civility, features exchanges
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Rally calls for civility, features exchanges
A group of about 30 people gathered Saturday at Ridgway’s Hartwell Park for a “Freedom Rally,” many waving American flags and signs supporting Preside...
September 24, 2020
Housing project inches ahead
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Housing project inches ahead
Ridgway’s long-awaited Space to Create apartment building, the first affordable housing project in the county, is expected to break ground this spring...
September 24, 2020
RETURNING TO HIS ROOTS
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RETURNING TO HIS ROOTS
A few months before the coronavirus pandemic halted international travel, Anthony Disser was flying frequently to China and Saudi Arabia, consulting f...
September 17, 2020
News
Structures draw complaints, probe
An assortment of tiny homes and other non-conforming structures in Elk Meadows has drawn the attention of Ouray County after complaints from neighbors...
September 17, 2020
This is how he rolls
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This is how he rolls
[tecnavia_gallery slug='this-is-how-he-rolls-gallery' view='carousel']Superintendent Tod Lokey brought a short yellow school bus to a stop on Whisperi...
September 3, 2020
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Pilot dies in reservoir crash
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Pilot dies in reservoir crash
Accident under investigation; man honored with procession
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
July 15, 2026
An experienced firefighting pilot who was pulling water from Silver Jack Reservoir to battle the Gold Mountain Fire died Sunday when his helicopter plunged into the reservoir northeast of Ridgway. Nic...
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Heights, heat add to firefighters’ strain
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Heights, heat add to firefighters’ strain
By By Chart Riggall chart@ouraynews.com 
July 15, 2026
Hotshot Jesse Eaves calls it “The Great Race.” At the small tent city along U.S. Highway 550, Eaves starts each day with a 5 a.m. wakeup call. Thus begins an eight-minute sprint for him and his Califo...
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County approves hiring fire recovery manager — if it can find funding
By Mike Wiggins and Deb Hurley Brobst mike@ouraynews.com 
July 15, 2026
Ouray County intends to hire an employee who can help lead the county’s efforts to recover from the Gold Mountain Fire — assuming it can find funding. County commissioners on Tuesday unanimously agree...
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Trust, county close to conserving open space park
Grants, donations put nonprofit on brink of acquiring Silver Mountain Mine property
By Deb Hurley Brobst Special to the Plaindealer 
July 15, 2026
Ouray County is much closer to getting a new open space park on the Silver Mountain Mine property. The Trust for Land Restoration has received a $180,000 Great Outdoors Colorado grant. Couple that wit...
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Man gets probation, community service in sex assault case
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Man gets probation, community service in sex assault case
One of three defendants, Whittington admits to giving alcohol to minor
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
July 15, 2026
A former Ouray County man was sentenced Monday to one year of unsupervised probation for providing alcohol to a then-17-year-old girl who said she was sexually assaulted by two others at the former Ou...
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