Dear Editor: As a parent of a Ridgway Secondary School student, I want additional funding to help our schools better serve my son and his friends. Tha...
September 22, 2021
Dear Editor: Ouray: Community or commodity? This November, three separate candidates are running for mayor and City Council. If they win, the entire c...
September 22, 2021
Dear Editor: On behalf of the Fortuna Tierra Club, I’d like to publicly thank the many people who participated and contributed to the success of the 6...
September 22, 2021
Covid
Ouray School has revised its mask policy, allowing high school students to remove them while in classrooms, due to higher vaccination rates. As of Fr...
September 17, 2021
50 YEARS AGO September 16, 1971 - Federal Resources Corp. has found ore at two new locations at the Camp Bird lead-zinc-silver mine at Ouray, accordin...
September 15, 2021
Obituaries
Maximus passed at the age of 17, peacefully at home, Montrose, CO, from Treatment-Induced Glioblastoma after battling Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia sin...
September 15, 2021
Obituaries
Kenneth R. Wyrick, was born February 9, 1944 to John-Duke and Lilly Carlene Wyrick in Mercedes, Texas. Ken passed peacefully at home on September 5, 2...
September 15, 2021
News
GUNNISON It would lead to construction industry layoffs. It would put an undue burden on property owners. It would overwhelm county staff. It would in...
September 15, 2021
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September 15, 2021
Dear Editor: Having attended nearly every City of Ouray council meeting over the last two years (both in-person and via Zoom), I have noticed a deteri...
September 15, 2021
Main, News...
Town seeks payment of sales, lodging taxes; hotel calls lawsuit 'misguided'
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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Niece, Nauer censure Padgett for secretly recording closed-door meeting
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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Latest draft bases members' voting power on financial contributions
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...
News
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...
News
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 ...
