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Nice to meet you, Ouray County. Let’s get to work
Columns, Opinion...
Nice to meet you, Ouray County. Let’s get to work
June 21, 2023
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Columns, Opinion...
OURAY COUNTY LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
June 21, 2023
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Nice to meet you, Ouray County. Let’s get to work
Columns, Opinion...
Nice to meet you, Ouray County. Let’s get to work
By Daniel Schmidt 
June 21, 2023
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OURAY COUNTY LOOKING BACK
June 14, 2023
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OURAY COUNTY LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
June 14, 2023
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A time when jail in Ouray meant a death sentence
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A time when jail in Ouray meant a death sentence
June 7, 2023
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OURAY COUNTY LOOKING BACK
June 7, 2023
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Blue flax provides showy flowers along roadsides
Columns, Feature...
Blue flax provides showy flowers along roadsides
By Mary Menz 
June 7, 2023
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Blue flax provides showy flowers along roadsides
Columns, Feature...
Blue flax provides showy flowers along roadsides
June 7, 2023
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A time when jail in Ouray meant a death sentence
Columns, Feature...
A time when jail in Ouray meant a death sentence
By Carolyn Snowbarger 
June 7, 2023
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OURAY COUNTY LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
June 7, 2023
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OURAY COUNTY LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
May 31, 2023
50 YEARS AGO May 31, 1973 - H.C McNulty, well-known Ouray resident, was killed last Thursday as he was en route to check the upper spring on his property south of Ouray, just off the Camp Bird Road. A...
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OURAY COUNTY LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
May 24, 2023
50 YEARS AGO May 24, 1973 - The Plaindealer has obtained reports of the amount of snowfall this winter from the Camp Bird Mine. At the Camp Bird, snow this year measured 404 inches, which is 80 to 90 ...
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The amazing Great White Egret
Columns, Feature...
The amazing Great White Egret
By Sue Hirshman 
May 24, 2023
Occasionally one finds A bird That has it all! – Anonymous Editor's note: Birds of Ouray County columnist Sue Hirshman has decided to continue writing her column when inspiration strikes, instead of m...
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OURAY COUNTY LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
May 17, 2023
50 YEARS AGO May 17, 1973 - Editorial: Ma Bell’s gone around the bend again, to the point where there’s no living with her. The decline has become too severe. Every week there’s a new aberration. A fe...
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OURAY COUNTY LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
May 10, 2023
50 YEARS AGO May 10, 1973 - Postal Service Week was commemorated at the Ouray Post Office this past week by honoring a uniquely outstanding postal customer: Dora S. Merling, who has used the Postal Se...
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OURAY COUNTY LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
May 3, 2023
50 YEARS AGO May 3, 1973 - Bob Larson, an engineer at Idarado Mining Company in Ouray, was injured Tuesday when an estimated five tons of rock fell on and around him. Larson was working in the 2254 st...
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Columns
OURAY COUNTY LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
April 26, 2023
50 YEARS AGO April 26, 1973 - Late spring and early summer is a tragic time for wildlife “rescued” by well-meaning humans who fail to understand that nature must take care of its own. Too often we kil...
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Columns
OURAY COUNTY LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
April 19, 2023
50 YEARS AGO April 19, 1973 - Monday of this week, Chief Miller and his deputy borrowed radar equipment from the Montrose Police Department and conducted a survey on Main Street. In the space of appro...
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The small and mighty Bufflehead
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The small and mighty Bufflehead
By Sue Hirshman 
April 19, 2023
The little Bufflehead “sits high in the water.” Bobbing up and down like a yellow rubber duckie in the bathtub — Richard Crossley The month of March was almost like a repeat of February, with very col...
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Ridgway hotel to convert to housing
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Ridgway hotel to convert to housing
MTN Lodge owner: Change needed to sustain operations; town leaders worried
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
September 10, 2025
Ridgway’s largest hotel plans to convert to construction and hotel workforce housing for a new Four Seasons development in Mountain Village for at least the next four years. MTN Lodge signed an agreem...
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With federal funds in limbo, Ouray seeks options to reduce wildfire danger
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With federal funds in limbo, Ouray seeks options to reduce wildfire danger
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
September 10, 2025
Ouray city leaders are exploring other ways to address dead, fallen trees littering neighborhoods and hillsides now that it's unclear when a large-scale, federally funded wildfire mitigation project w...
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Interim police chief retained through Dec. 31
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
September 10, 2025
Ouray City Administrator Michelle Metteer has extended the contract of Interim Police Chief Daric Harvey through the end of the year. Harvey was hired as the interim chief in March, replacing Sgt. Gar...
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City to hear public input on wayfinding sign solutions
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City to hear public input on wayfinding sign solutions
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
September 10, 2025
The Ouray City Council will hold a work session Monday to discuss possible solutions to concerns raised by residents and business owners about new wayfinding signs installed along Main Street earlier ...
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Article about Space to Create too negative
September 10, 2025
Dear Editor: The origin and theory behind the Space To Create movement is tied to the common phenomenon where creative individuals, looking for affordable and functional space, move into semi-industri...
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