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Ouray council meeting canceled due to COVID-19

The city of Ouray has called off tonight's City Council meeting due to COVID-19. City Administrator Silas Clarke told the Plaindealer this afternoon h...

January 3, 2022

Covid

County reports dozens of new COVID-19 cases

Ten percent of all Ouray County COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began have come in just the last 10 days, including more than 50 during an after-Chr...

December 31, 2021

News

GOODBYE 2021, HELLO 2022

[tecnavia_gallery slug='goodbye-2021-hello-2022-gallery' view='carousel']Ouray County benefited from progress on many fronts in 2021 — the distributio...

December 24, 2021

CALENDAR & EVENTS

ART SHOW: Ouray County Community Art Show at the Ridgway Library during normal hours. Nov. 12 through Jan. 12. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Every Friday and ...

December 24, 2021

Second Chance Humane Society

Year formed: 1994 What does your organization do for Ouray County? “Most simply, we bring pets and people “Most simply, we bring pets and people toget...

December 24, 2021

Ouray County Ranch History Museum

Editor's note: The Ouray County Plaindealer is featuring nonprofit organizations which are based in Ouray County and serve Ouray County in a series of...

December 24, 2021

SWEET REWARDS

From left, Adam Noel and Brandon Scott pose with the gingerbread house they made at the Ouray Elks Lodge the week before Christmas. They won second pl...

December 24, 2021

Ridgway-Ouray Community Council

Year formed: 1993 What does your organization do for Ouray County? Ridgway-Ouray Community Council (ROCC) works through ten different committees to - ...

December 24, 2021

Opinion

LOOKING BACK

50 YEARS AGO December 30, 1971 - Marvin Gregory had a painful accident last Wednesday while working with a power saw, and has now joined the club of b...

December 24, 2021

News

CHECKING IT TWICE

Photo courtesy Lou Hart How does Santa determine who's been naughty and who's been nice this year? By reading the Plaindealer, of course! The jolly ol...

December 23, 2021

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Ridgway sues MTN Lodge

Town seeks payment of sales, lodging taxes; hotel calls lawsuit 'misguided'

By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com

April 1, 2026

The town of Ridgway is suing the owners of MTN Lodge over their plans to use the hotel as workforce housing for the next several years, aiming to suspend operations and demanding they pay lodging and ...

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Board rebukes commissioner

Niece, Nauer censure Padgett for secretly recording closed-door meeting

By By Lia Salvatierra and Erin McIntyre lia@ouraynews.com erin@ouraynews.com

April 1, 2026

Two Ouray County commissioners publicly reprimanded their fellow commissioner after discovering she secretly recorded an executive session last week. Portions of the audio from that executive session ...

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Proposed merger could make fire chief highest paid official

Latest draft bases members' voting power on financial contributions

By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com

April 1, 2026

The current proposal to combine fire and emergency medical services entities in Ouray County could eventually make the new fire chief the highest-paid public official in the county and may base partic...

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Jury convicts mother in retaliation case

By Erin McIntyre and Mike Wiggins erin@ouraynews.com mike@ouraynews.com

April 1, 2026

A jury has convicted a former Ouray woman of retaliating against another woman who accused her son of sexual assault in 2023. Jurors deliberated for about an hour on March 26 before finding Kristyn Tr...

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EMS moves overnight quarters with help from chamber grant

By Deb Hurley Brobst Special to the Plaindealer

April 1, 2026

Ouray County Emergency Medical Services is moving its sleeping quarters for on-call staff in Ouray into the former Public Health office location, with donations providing rent assistance. An EMT will ...

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Remote-triggered avalanche in San Juan Mountains

First responders receive first COVID-19 vaccines