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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....
September 1, 2022
Opinion
Dear Editor: The Ouray Public Library would like to thank our community, staff, and volunteers for an overwhelmingly successful Drag Queen Story Hour....
September 1, 2022
Opinion
50 YEARS AGO August 31, 1972 - It’s here! Ouray’s county ambulance is in town and ready to go. The brand-new Chevrolet Sentinel ambulance is an attrac...
September 1, 2022
Opinion
Dear Editor: September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. As a volunteer advocate with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, I ...
September 1, 2022
Opinion
Dear Editor: While my opinion and world view hasn’t changed drastically as an adult, over the years I have adopted a coping mechanism of self-censorsh...
September 1, 2022
Opinion
Dear Editor: I celebrate our Ouray Public Library and the wonderful variety of services and programs it offers us! Ann Dettmer Ouray
September 1, 2022
50 YEARS AGO August 24, 1972 - At the Ouray County commissioner public meeting Monday the zoning ordinance requiring a “green belt” in each subdivisio...
August 24, 2022
Dear Editor: Aug. 26, 2022, marks the 102nd anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by which American women won the ...
August 24, 2022
Dear Editor: The proposed new Ridgway housing development adjacent to the Vista Terrace neighborhood named Four Winds at Ridgway Subdivision, LLC is a...
August 24, 2022
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Reclamation part of orphaned and abandoned well program
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...
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September 4, 2026
President Donald Trump has signed off on a major disaster declaration for the Gold Mountain and Aspen Acres fires that unlocks millions of dollars in Federal Emergency Management Agency relief funds f...
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Senator tours flood-damaged areas, surveys planned fire mitigation efforts
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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EMS paramedic, deputy emergency manager sent home days after fire started
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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'You guys are in crisis,' Hickenlooper tells proprietors wrestling with aftermath of Gold Mountain Fire
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...
