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OURAY POLICE The following is an excerpt of cases handled by the Ouray Police Department from Sept. 28-Oct. 3 SEPT. 28 Officer found a parking violati...
October 6, 2022
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LOOKING BACK
October 5, 1972 - EDITORIAL: If you intended to get to the Ouray city council meeting when the budget is being put together, forget it. It’s all over....
October 6, 2022
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CALENDAR & EVENTS
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Every Friday and Saturday morning at 9 a.m. and every Wednesday night at 5:30 p.m. at St. Daniel’s Church, 614 Fifth St., Ouray....
October 6, 2022
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AROUND THE REGION
GUNNISON In a unanimous vote, Gunnison City Council appointed city Finance Director Ben Cowan to serve as interim city manager during a regular meetin...
October 6, 2022
Addressing tobacco, vaping much needed
Dear Editor: A quarter of a century “Big Tobacco,” whose products were killing more than 400,000 Americans a year, appeared to be on the ropes. Cities...
September 28, 2022
Help monitor local bighorn population
Dear Editor: We hope you saw the Great Old Broads for Wilderness paid ad last week on the back page of this publication describing the risk to our nat...
September 28, 2022
Donors made reading program possible
Dear Editor: As the summer season has come to an end, the Ridgway Library just wanted to take a moment and thank Café a la Mode, Snowbirds and Colorad...
September 28, 2022
Appreciation for Plaindealer
Dear Editor: Congratulations to the editor, publisher and entire staff of the Plaindealer on the many awards bestowed on the paper by the Colorado Pre...
September 28, 2022
Thanks for student backing
Dear Editor: We would like to personally thank the Ouray County community for their generous support of the 22nd year of The Mount Sneffels Marathon-H...
September 28, 2022
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Crews working to fill 1950s-era well along U.S. 550
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Crews working to fill 1950s-era well along U.S. 550
Reclamation part of orphaned and abandoned well program
By Chart Riggall 
September 4, 2026
It’s not what you think. A towering steel drill rig that’s been perched along the side of U.S. Highway 550 in recent weeks isn’t probing for gas, or oil, or even a route to the Far East. The operation...
Hickenlooper hopeful for fire disaster order
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Hickenlooper hopeful for fire disaster order
Senator tours flood-damaged areas, surveys planned fire mitigation efforts
By By Chart Riggall chart@ouraynews.com 
September 2, 2026
U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper said Friday he was optimistic the Trump administration will declare the Gold Mountain Fire a federal disaster, arguing Congress “wouldn’t settle for” the White House withho...
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County employees remain on paid leave
EMS paramedic, deputy emergency manager sent home days after fire started
By By James Hanlon james@ouraynews.com 
September 2, 2026
Ouray County has had two emergency-related employees on paid administrative leave since the early days of the Gold Mountain Fire. A third employee, Road and Bridge Superintendent Ty Barger, was placed...
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Businesses share struggles with senator
'You guys are in crisis,' Hickenlooper tells proprietors wrestling with aftermath of Gold Mountain Fire
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
September 2, 2026
Ouray County business owners bent the ear of U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper on Friday, sharing stories of declining profits and mass cancellations in the wake of the Gold Mountain Fire in the hopes the D...
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