Meet the new staffers at Ridgway School District! Christine Freed Paraprofessional Years in education: Brand new Lived in Ouray County: Two years What...
August 21, 2019
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August 21, 2019
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August 21, 2019
Columns
From the Ouray County Herald and Ouray County Plaindealer: 50 Years Ago August 21, 1969 - If owners do not remove their junk cars and/or trailers left...
August 21, 2019
Columns
By Susan Lacy, Ridgway School District Superintendent The Ridgway School District begins the year with exciting elementary campus improvements. The fr...
August 21, 2019
Columns
Planet Earth, the only home most of us and our descendants will ever know, needs our help. July 2019 was the hottest month in recorded history. “July ...
August 21, 2019
Columns
Welcome back to another exciting year at Ouray School District! Upon your return one of the first things you will notice is our newly renovated play...
August 21, 2019
Letters
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor, The Ouray County BOCC is proposing a massive property tax increase (up to 3.7+ mils) *and* up to a 3.5% "use fee" o...
August 21, 2019
Letters
Dear Editor, I have seen lots of stories about how global warming will impact coastal areas of the world. That got me to wondering if we here in Ouray...
August 21, 2019
Obituaries
Robert (Bob) Madura died peacefully in his home on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019, with his loving wife at his side. Bob was born April 3, 1939, in Hammond,...
August 21, 2019
Main
Patrol, education duties look similar, only now county foots the bill
August 6, 2025
Kricket Olin pulled the side-by-side ATV over to a cluster of off-highway vehicles and leaned over the door, sticking her head in the neon helmet out the window. “Hi I’m Kricket, an alpine ranger with...
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Three die in wrecks on Highway 550 on back-to-back days
August 6, 2025
An 11-year-old girl survived a car crash that killed two adults on Red Mountain Pass on Tuesday morning, after the vehicle she was riding in tumbled down a 320-foot cliff and landed on its roof in Red...
News
City administrator plans interviews, public meet-and-greet for Daric Harvey, whose contract is up soon
August 6, 2025
Interim Ouray Police Chief Daric Harvey will be given the first crack at the permanent police chief position through an internal interview process arranged by City Administrator Michelle Metteer. Mett...
Feature
Chang Chavkin scholars value support as first-generation college students
August 6, 2025
Andrea Peralta Villa was unsure how she would make it to college until the final few days before classes started, despite having a roommate and a nearly full-ride scholarship lined up. She overcame th...
Letters
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
August 6, 2025
Dear Editor: To those who use our trails and any of our beautiful outdoors: Please take everything with you when you are finished hiking, biking or whatever activity you may have been doing! That incl...
