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Volunteer Voices: Amber Cornell
Columns, Feature...
Volunteer Voices: Amber Cornell
February 19, 2025
I recently had a delightful conversation with Amber Cornell, the new-ish senior coordinator for Neighbor to Neighbor. The nonprofit has a volunteer-based program that has been serving seniors, people ...
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FROM THE PUBLISHERS
Have opinions about the Plaindealer? We want to hear them
February 5, 2025
Who wants to come have lunch and tell us what you think of the Plaindealer? Yep, we're looking for some of our readers to share their opinions. Sounds like fun, right? We're inviting readers to apply ...
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Frigid January follows one of hottest years on record
Columns, Opinion...
Frigid January follows one of hottest years on record
By Karen Risch 
January 29, 2025
It’s been a bitter January for most of the Mountain West and eastern two-thirds of the country. The huge arctic airmass responsible for this outbreak measured 10,000 feet deep on soundings in Riverton...
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Volunteer Voices: Sue Young
Columns, Feature...
Volunteer Voices: Sue Young
By SUE HUSCH 
January 8, 2025
I had a delightful conversation with Sue Young after the Second Chance Humane Society shelter manager let me know that she has been a star volunteer for years, walking dogs, helping at adoption events...
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The rise, fall and rise of Ophir
Columns, Opinion...
The rise, fall and rise of Ophir
By Carolyn Snowbarger 
January 8, 2025
Put Ophir, Colorado, on your exploration bucket list for this summer. At 9,695 feet in elevation, this off-the-beaten-path community is seven miles southwest of Telluride and 10 “adventurous” miles fr...
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Will AI and Trump change weather forecasting?
Columns
Will AI and Trump change weather forecasting?
By Karen Risch 
December 25, 2024
Right on time for Christmas, the first in a series of snowstorms blew into western Colorado Monday with more snow predicted for Christmas Day and afterwards. The last week of the year is forecast to b...
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Clive Cussler’s last great story
Columns, Opinion...
Clive Cussler’s last great story
By Carolyn Snowbarger 
December 11, 2024
Most people probably don't know they're driving past the burial site of one of the most prolific American authors in recent history when they're traveling from Ridgway to Telluride. But just off Color...
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Columns, Opinion...
White Thanksgiving rounds out cool, wet month
By Karen Risch 
November 27, 2024
November is synonymous with Thanksgiving, a major family holiday for Americans. As most of us learned in elementary school, its storied beginnings date to the early colonists and their Indian neighbor...
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Columns, Opinion...
John Fremont’s Colorado legacy
By Carolyn Snowbarger 
November 13, 2024
John Charles Fremont (1813-1890) is a famous and infamous figure in the 19th century. He was a major general for the Union Army during the Civil War, served as a U.S. senator from California, and led ...
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Columns, Opinion...
Unpredictable, warm weather spooking all
By Karen Risch 
October 30, 2024
On Halloween, the spookiest day of the year, the latest developments in global weirding seem especially unsettling. Water Year 2024, which ended Sept. 30, was another drought year for Ouray with 22.17...
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Columns, Opinion...
FROM THE PUBLISHERS
A peek behind the Plaindealer curtain
October 16, 2024
Sometimes, you can't win. You're damned if you do, and damned if you don't. It's important for us to be transparent with readers about newsroom ethical debates we hold, and we wanted to share a few of...
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Columns, Feature...
The origins of Dallas: Scottish word or little-known VP?
By Carolyn Snowbarger 
October 9, 2024
Do vice presidents leave a legacy? Many historians believe that Vice President George Mifflin Dallas certainly did here in Ouray County. Today you can find a creek, a mountain, a pass, a company and a...
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Columns, Opinion...
Bask in warm autumn days before winter’s chill
By Karen Risch 
September 25, 2024
It’s raining on a late September Saturday afternoon and a cold 48 degrees as I begin this column. Pristine snow drapes the mountains above timberline. A remarkable gardening season ends at 7,736 feet ...
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Columns, Opinion...
PLAINDEALER EDITORIAL
What do you want to ask the candidates? Let us know
September 18, 2024
We all know this year's election is a big one, nationally. But locally, we have one contested race for county commissioner, House District 58 and Senate District 6 races and a bunch of statewide ballo...
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Origins of ‘Danny Boy’ found in the U.K. — and Ouray
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Origins of ‘Danny Boy’ found in the U.K. — and Ouray
By Carolyn Snowbarger 
September 11, 2024
“Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side The summer’s gone, and all the roses falling, It’s you, it’s you must go, and I must bide.” The history o...
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August monsoon continues year of extremes
Columns, Opinion...
August monsoon continues year of extremes
By Karen Risch 
August 28, 2024
Last Sunday, Ouray’s wet August weather definitively broke the old precipitation record for the month, 5.28 inches, set during the serious flood year of 1982, when both Portland and Cascade Creeks cau...
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Ouray deserves accountability, transparency
Columns, Opinion...
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Ouray deserves accountability, transparency
By Erin McIntyre 
July 31, 2024
Some folks might be tempted to think the biggest problem with the Ouray Police Department has been solved, because the city fired the chief. They think the trash has been taken out, so to speak. But s...
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Early monsoon a welcome prelude to dry July
Columns
Early monsoon a welcome prelude to dry July
By Karen Risch 
July 24, 2024
During this summer, like last year’s, it’s not just Earth’s cities and countrysides that are swelteringly hot. The oceans, which cover 70% of the planet, are too. Science writer and essayist David Wal...
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Columns, Opinion...
FROM THE PUBLISHERS
A welcome boost for local news
July 10, 2024
Being in the Plaindealer staff box that appears at the bottom of this page most every week has felt a little lonely this year. For more than five months, the only names you’ve seen there are ours and ...
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Falls a natural marvel and tribute to pathfinder
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Falls a natural marvel and tribute to pathfinder
By Carolyn Snowbarger 
July 10, 2024
The mineral rush was on! Prospectors found gold, silver and other mineral deposits in the northern San Juan Mountains in the years following the Civil War. The historic Red Mountain Mining District ex...
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Get into the groove
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Get into the groove
July 2, 2025
Carrie Ann Mund, left, dances with Tawnya Schiebel during the Mariachi de San Jose band’s performance in Ridgway’s Hartwell Park on June 29. The band performed as part of the fifth annual Fete de la M...
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Leaders object to public lands sale
Conservationists, ranchers, elected officials decry bill, though battle over federal property may return
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
July 2, 2025
Recent federal proposals to sell or develop Ouray County’s public lands would harm the county’s economy, identity and culture of ranching and public recreation, according to county officials and other...
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Sex assault trial moved to Montrose
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
July 2, 2025
A judge has ordered the trial of a man accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl in 2023 to be moved from Ouray to Montrose. Seventh Judicial Chief District Judge Cory Jackson approved the tri...
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Celebrating the Fourth in Ouray? Load up on sunscreen, patience, courtesy
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Celebrating the Fourth in Ouray? Load up on sunscreen, patience, courtesy
Private security to help with traffic, parking, so law enforcement can be more proactive
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
July 2, 2025
The sights and sounds of the Fourth of July in Ouray are ubiquitous. The powerful spray of fire hoses. The shrieks of kids racing through Fellin Park. Cheers and honking horns on Main Street. This yea...
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News
New weapons policy would ban public, allow employees to conceal carry
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
July 2, 2025
County leaders are debating a new policy that would ban the public from carrying any weapons within Ouray County buildings but allow county employees with valid permits to conceal carry weapons in mos...
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