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LOOKING BACK
50 YEARS AGO May 20, 1971 - Construction of the Silver Jack Reservoir on the Big Cimarron River will be completed this summer. The reservoir is fillin...
May 19, 2021
No tolerance for DUI
Dear Editor: I strongly believe that there should be zero tolerance for people who drive under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, regardless of “w...
May 19, 2021
Mask mandate sends wrong message
Dear Editor: In response to the group of emergency physicians call for continuing the local face mask mandate (April 29 Plaindealer edition), I have t...
May 19, 2021
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AROUND THE REGION
GUNNISON Gunnison County leaders celebrated the start of what will be a multi-million dollar overhaul to the Gunnison-Crested Butte Regional Airport t...
May 12, 2021
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NEWS BRIEFS
Trail clearing scheduled at Ridgway State Park Local residents are invited to help clear trails of brush and invasive weeds at Ridgway State Park on S...
May 12, 2021
OURAY COUNTY LOOKING BACK
50 YEARS AGO May 13, 1971 - Passersby were rather interested and amused when work began Friday morning last week on the new “Youth Park,” on the Main ...
May 12, 2021
Celebrate Public Lands Day this weekend
Dear Editor: This Saturday, May 15, Coloradans will celebrate Colorado Public Lands Day. In May 2016, Colorado became the first state in the nation to...
May 12, 2021
Grateful for cemetery caretaker
Dear Editor: The Cedar Hill Cemetery District has operated the cemetery between Ridgway and Ouray for more than 100 years, with its last seven years o...
May 12, 2021
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Power outage hits Ouray
UPDATE, 11:38 a.m. Power has been restored. Utility officials attributed the service interruption to equipment damage. Crews made the repairs and re-e...
May 10, 2021
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AROUND THE REGION
GUNNISON Gunnison Valley irrigators can breathe a sigh of relief: Despite low snowpack and low reservoir storage, Uncompahgre Valley water users say t...
May 6, 2021
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Ridgway sues MTN Lodge
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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
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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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