Dear Editor: I was honored to be able to attend the 9/11 memorial in Ouray this year. What a great tradition in a small part of our great nation! I wo...
September 15, 2021
Dear Editor: In this upcoming election the voters in Ridgway School District will face two ballot questions asking for funding. First, question 4A is ...
September 15, 2021
News
The Ouray School District will not have an election for three seats this fall, because only two candidates applied to run and were certified to run fo...
September 8, 2021
News
Community members are invited to visit the Ridgway Visitor Center and Heritage Park on Sept. 14 from 5 to 8 p.m., hosted by the Ridgway Area Chamber o...
September 8, 2021
Covid
Ouray County had 14 active cases of COVID-19 as of Wednesday morning. The most recent positive cases of the virus involve three probable cases – a wom...
September 8, 2021
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September 8, 2021
50 YEARS AGO September 9, 1971 - As any youngster raised on Vinegar Hill can tell you, the “Old Indian Chief” lies buried underneath an ancient boxeld...
September 8, 2021
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September 8, 2021
Dear Editor: We are writing to provide a more balanced view of the reasons that the miner housing proposal was objected to by the Wanakah Estates neig...
September 8, 2021
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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...
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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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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 ...
