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The merit of 3,000 words
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The merit of 3,000 words
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April 19, 2023
Letters
Appreciation for Elk Meadows article
Dear Editor: I’m the Elk Meadows homeowner with that “whopping” 57,000 gallon usage in November 2021. I was notified by email Dec. 1, 2021, as soon as...
April 19, 2023
Columns
OURAY COUNTY LOOKING BACK
50 YEARS AGO April 19, 1973 - Monday of this week, Chief Miller and his deputy borrowed radar equipment from the Montrose Police Department and conduc...
April 19, 2023
AN EGGS-CELLENT EASTER AT FELLIN PARK
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AN EGGS-CELLENT EASTER AT FELLIN PARK
[tecnavia_gallery slug='an-eggs-cellent-easter-at-fellin-park-gallery' view='carousel']Left, some of the Easter egg hunt participants were laser-focus...
April 13, 2023
News
Comparing water rates
Elk Meadows residents pay some of the lowest water rates in the region: $33 a month. While most municipalities and utility companies raise rates gradu...
April 13, 2023
Opinion
OURAY COUNTY LOOKING BACK
50 YEARS AGO April 12, 1973 - Greatly to her surprise, Miss Emma Lou Wilder, indefatigable secretary of the Ouray County Chamber of Commerce, was name...
April 13, 2023
News
CALENDAR & EVENTS
THURSDAY, APRIL 13 LEGAL CLINIC: A free legal clinic for parties who have no attorney. Volunteer attorneys answer questions by phone. Ouray Library, 3...
April 13, 2023
Letters
Headlights help save lives on highway
Dear Editor: U.S. Highway 550 is a dangerous highway, especially the Million Dollar Highway stretch! The remainder of the highway claims many lives al...
April 13, 2023
Letters
Revised marijuana grow rules worth nothing
Dear Editor: I sat through five hours of a public hearing for the Cannaboo commercial cultivation facility license request. The license was approved f...
April 13, 2023
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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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