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Dear Editor: I am writing in response to the letter, “Hateful flag waver welcome to leave,” written by Tom Heffernan and published in the March 9 edit...

March 22, 2023

Letters

Short-term rentals an unfair scapegoat

Dear Editor: Short-term rentals are a touchy subject, but it is very personal to us. Oftentimes STRs are considered the “evil twin” that is to blame f...

March 22, 2023

Letters

Tourists help pay for Ouray’s big bills

Dear Editor: Because Ouray’s industry is tourism, it means it’s a place people want to come, not just to visit but to live. It allows us to have excel...

March 22, 2023

Columns

OURAY COUNTY LOOKING BACK

50 YEARS AGO March 22, 1973 - Voting for rain, snow or sunshine could someday be as commonplace as electing a president, senator or mayor. Campaigns w...

March 22, 2023

Letters

Problems with Amerigas date back years

Dear Editor: Several years ago we had Amerigas propane service on Log Hill. We had regular issues with getting propane delivered during the winter. Wh...

March 15, 2023

News

NEWS BRIEFS

Ridgway and Ouray high school basketball athletes were honored with San Juan Basin League All- Conference awards after the end of the season. The foll...

March 15, 2023

Columns

OURAY COUNTY LOOKING BACK

50 YEARS AGO March 15, 1973 - Editorial: The March 6th news story from the Montrose Daily Press is reprinted, page five, this week, not for sympathy b...

March 15, 2023

Letters

Ridgway rental tax discussions rife with misperceptions

Dear Editor: As owner/operators of two of Ridgway’s longest running short-term rentals (STRs), we were shocked to learn at the March 8 Town Council me...

March 15, 2023

Obituaries

Dorothy E. Dougherty

March 15, 2023

Gas boiler would ruin what’s left of pool

Dear Editor: The Ouray Hot Springs Pool is a part of my worldly soul. That is truth, regardless of what you may think after you’ve read this. Protest ...

March 15, 2023

Will Coloradans choose the ‘right to hunt’?

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Will Coloradans choose the ‘right to hunt’?

Proposed constitutional amendment asks who should dictate wildlife policy

By Chart Riggall

October 14, 2026

Colorado’s vote next month on whether to amend the state Constitution by codifying the right to hunt and fish has intensified debate among hunters, conservationists and legal experts over exactly who ...

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City hit with another police suit

Ex-admin assistant claims Ouray lost personal info, violated policies

By Erin McIntyre erin@ouraynews.com

October 14, 2026

The city of Ouray faces another lawsuit from an ex-employee of the police department. In a complaint filed last week in district court, former Ouray Police Department administrative assistant Lucy Ree...

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County OKs police deal

By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com

October 14, 2026

Ouray County commissioners approved a revised contract Tuesday that would make the Ouray County Sheriff’s Office the full-time provider of police services in the city of Ouray — but at a higher cost t...

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In light of budget cuts, Padgett takes 10% salary reduction

By James Hanlon

October 14, 2026

Ouray County Commissioner Lynn Padgett will take a voluntary 10% salary reduction next year in a show of solidarity with other departments that took cuts for the 2027 budget. Padgett said budget reduc...

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School district to sell workforce unit

Pay raise bumps Ridgway staff out of affordable housing income bracket

By James Hanlon

October 14, 2026

The Ridgway School Board plans to sell the school district’s last affordable housing unit and rejected a land donation that could have been used to build more housing at a board meeting Oct. 8. No sta...

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Remote-triggered avalanche in San Juan Mountains

First responders receive first COVID-19 vaccines