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GUNNISON The results of a study commissioned by the Gunnison-Crested Butte Regional Airport put numbers to the throne of Coloradans and Texans who com...
December 1, 2021
Ouray County Performing Arts Guild
Ouray County Performing Arts Guild
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 1, 2021
Ouray Mountain Rescue Team
Ouray Mountain Rescue Team
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 1, 2021
Fortuna Tierra Club
Fortuna Tierra Club
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 1, 2021
Help mayor, councilors with transition
Dear Editor: Holding public office was never, in and of itself, one of those life goals for me. My native space of service has always been more utilit...
December 1, 2021
LOOKING BACK
50 YEARS AGO November 25, 1971 - Intended For Last Week: Your reporter could not cover City Council Meeting Nov. 15. She was caught in a storm. Make t...
November 24, 2021
Kaye Don Lathrop
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Kaye Don Lathrop
Kaye was born in Bryan, Ohio and grew up in Macomb, Illinois. He attended West Point Military Academy, graduating in 1955. He and Judith Green met whi...
November 24, 2021
Dog tests positive for leptospirosis
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Dog tests positive for leptospirosis
Ridgway Animal Hospital is advising its clients to check whether their dogs need a vaccine booster after a dog in Ouray County recently tested positiv...
November 24, 2021
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Water restrictions exception, not rule
Colorado is on track for its warmest year ever. Source flows are diminishing or at historic lows. So why has only one water provider in Ouray County ordered cutbacks this summer?
By By Chart Riggall chart@ouraynews.com 
September 9, 2026
In the early days of summer, it remained a matter of some debate where the drought of 2026 ranked in the annals of long, hot Colorado summers. For Cary Denison, Ouray County’s representative on the Co...
Crews working to plug old water well
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Crews working to plug old water well
Operation part of state program to reclaim abandoned sites
By By Chart Riggall chart@ouraynews.com 
September 9, 2026
It’s not what you think. A towering steel drill 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 is ...
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