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Season of Sharing: Second Chance Humane Society
December 13, 2023
Year established as a nonprofit: 1994 What does your organization do for Ouray County? Second Chance Humane Society speaks on behalf of animals in Ouray, Montrose and San Miguel counties. We accept st...
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Season of Sharing: Voyager Youth Program
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Season of Sharing: Voyager Youth Program
December 13, 2023
SEASON OF SHARING Editor’s note: The Ouray County Plaindealer started publishing profiles of nonprofits between Thanksgiving and New Year’s in 2020 as a community service. The purpose of these profile...
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Season of Sharing: Ouray Trail Group
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Season of Sharing: Ouray Trail Group
December 13, 2023
Editor’s note: The Ouray County Plaindealer started publishing profiles of nonprofits between Thanksgiving and New Year’s in 2020 as a community service. The purpose of these profiles is to highlight ...
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Season of Sharing: Ridgway Ouray Community Council
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Season of Sharing: Ridgway Ouray Community Council
December 13, 2023
Editor’s note: The Ouray County Plaindealer started publishing profiles of nonprofits between Thanksgiving and New Year’s in 2020 as a community service. The purpose of these profiles is to highlight ...
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Burning questions: The curious past of Ouray’s red cliff door
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Burning questions: The curious past of Ouray’s red cliff door
By Daniel Schmidt daniel@ouraynews.com 
December 13, 2023
For observant drivers traversing U.S. Highway 550, Ouray’s red door has been an oddity without rhyme or reason for years. Framed by the cliffs just south of Rotary Park, it seemingly leads to the hear...
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LOOKING BACK
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LOOKING BACK
December 6, 2023
OURAY COUNTY December 6, 1973 - EDITORIAL: At times during Monday night’s city council meeting, some gentlemen on the council seemed to have been thrown into panic resulting in tunnel vision, followin...
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Season of Sharing: Home Trust of Ouray County
December 6, 2023
Year established as a nonprofit: 2021 What does your organization do for Ouray County? In a county where the median cost of a single family home is $875,000, our work is critical to the future of our ...
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Season of Sharing: Friends of the Ouray Public Library
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Season of Sharing: Friends of the Ouray Public Library
December 6, 2023
SEASON OF SHARING Editor’s note: The Ouray County Plaindealer started publishing profiles of nonprofits between Thanksgiving and New Year’s in 2020 as a community service. The purpose of these profile...
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Honoring the ‘heart and soul’ of Ridgway basketball
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Honoring the ‘heart and soul’ of Ridgway basketball
By Daniel Schmidt daniel@ouraynews.com 
December 6, 2023
Court named after legendary hoops coach Steve Hill As Steve Hill sat surrounded by friends and family on Ridgway Secondary School’s bleachers Saturday, overwhelming pride washed over him once he saw h...
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CARL’S VILLAGE
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CARL’S VILLAGE
By Erin McIntyre 
November 29, 2023
From the recliner in front of his living room picture window, Carl Dismant sees the wild turkeys strutting across his yard and visitors coming up the sidewalk. He's set a timer to make sure he wakes u...
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Season of Sharing – UpstART: Theater That Moves
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Season of Sharing – UpstART: Theater That Moves
November 29, 2023
SEASON OF SHARING Editor’s note: The Ouray County Plaindealer started publishing profiles of nonprofits between Thanksgiving and New Year’s in 2020 as a community service. The purpose of these profile...
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Rent increase leads consignment shop to close
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Rent increase leads consignment shop to close
By Daniel Schmidt daniel@ouraynews.com 
November 29, 2023
When Lynne Stovicek opened Lucky Find Consignments after working at The Market grocery store in Ridgway, she felt a sense of fear. It was December 2016, nearly a year after a different consignment sho...
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BBQ restaurant brings the smoke to Ouray
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BBQ restaurant brings the smoke to Ouray
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
November 29, 2023
With the help of a Texas pit master, The Smokehouse debuts at Ouray Riverside Resort When Jason and Amber Perkins purchased a commercial smoker nearly a year ago, it was part of a long-term strategy t...
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Season of Sharing: George Gardner Scholarship Fund
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Season of Sharing: George Gardner Scholarship Fund
November 29, 2023
Year established as a nonprofit: 2008 What does your organization do for Ouray County? The George Gardner Scholarship Fund provides financial assistance to Ouray County youth to pursue outdoor or expe...
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Season of Sharing: Weehawken Creative Arts
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Season of Sharing: Weehawken Creative Arts
November 29, 2023
SEASON OF SHARING Editor’s note: The Ouray County Plaindealer started publishing profiles of nonprofits between Thanksgiving and New Year’s in 2020 as a community service. The purpose of these profile...
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Spotlight on the Arts: Ann Fellin
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New Wright director focused on fundraising for historic venue
Spotlight on the Arts: Ann Fellin
By Gabrielle Porter / Special to the Plaindealer 
November 29, 2023
When Seattle native Ann Fellin moved to Ouray a little more than a year ago, she had a vision for her life: A peaceful few years of teaching yoga, the perfect capstone to a lengthy corporate career. B...
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CALENDAR & EVENTS
November 22, 2023
CALENDAR & EVENTS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29 MOVIE: Jesus Revolu_on, rated PG-13, 7 p.m., Wright Opera House, 472 Main St., Ouray. $5. MEETING: Annual mee_ng of the Ouray County Water Users Associa_on to ...
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OURAY COUNTY LOOKING BACK
November 22, 2023
November 22, 1973 - The old school at Ridgway is no longer in use. Monday this week the move was made into the new school. A potluck open house was held Tuesday night this week, to celebrate and to gi...
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SPIRIT OF THE RIVER
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SPIRIT OF THE RIVER
November 22, 2023
Thirteen-year-old Ariel Hessler of Ridgway receives her first-place award and $200 for her entry in the Spirit of the River Youth Art & Poetry contest held by the Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership. UW...
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Season of Sharing: West Region Wildfire Council
November 22, 2023
Editor’s note: The Ouray County Plaindealer started publishing profiles of nonprofits between Thanksgiving and New Year’s in 2020 as a community service. The purpose of these profiles is to highlight ...
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State to reduce highway speeds near Ridgway
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HIGHWAY 550 SAFETY
State to reduce highway speeds near Ridgway
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
November 26, 2025
The Colorado Department of Transportation plans to lower the speed limit for traffic along a half-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 550 north of Ridgway, near a section of road where the highest number of ...
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OURAY'S 2026 BUDGET
City trims jobs, capital expenses
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
November 26, 2025
A cautious Ouray City Council approved a $16.8 million budget for 2026 on Tuesday, leaving a handful of vacant jobs unfilled and slashing capital projects in anticipation of a potential economic downt...
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Schools adopt frameworks for AI tools
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
November 26, 2025
Both Ridgway Secondary School and the Ouray School District have adopted guidelines for students to use artificial intelligence, joining the first wave of schools in the state to do so. Lining classro...
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As scams climb, experts offer insight on how to avoid them
Local bank, police officials: Fraud attempts growing in sophistication
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
November 26, 2025
Anyone can become the victim of fraud. In Ouray County, one person lost $17,000 after being coerced into setting up a series of bank transfers. Property owners were duped by a home builder who created...
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CORRECTION
November 26, 2025
An article on Page 6 of the Nov. 20-26 edition incorrectly reported the Ridgway Town Council's votes on a new anti-idling ordinance. The ordinance was approved 5-1, with Councilor Michelle Montague vo...
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