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Season of Sharing: Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership
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Season of Sharing: Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership
December 20, 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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CALENDAR & EVENTS
December 13, 2023
CALENDAR & EVENTS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14 LEGAL CLINIC: A free legal clinic for paties who have no attorney. Volunteer attorneys answer questions by phone. Ouray Library, 320 6th Ave. 2-5 p.m. Call 970-...
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LOOKING BACK
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LOOKING BACK
December 13, 2023
December 13, 1973 - The Ouray County Chamber of Commerce has passed a resolution to request a change in Ouray zoning which would allow larger signs than the zoning ordinance presently provides. A mont...
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Frank Carney’s legacy remains visible in Ouray
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Frank Carney’s legacy remains visible in Ouray
By Carolyn Snowbarger 
December 13, 2023
Francis (Frank) Carney was born in County Fermanagh, Ireland, in 1846. After emigrating to the United States in 1859, he completed schooling in Corning and Watkins, New York. The family moved to New Y...
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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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Ridgway to grow capacity to fight wildland fires
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Ridgway to grow capacity to fight wildland fires
Additional staff, engine can enhance skills, create more revenue
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
December 3, 2025
Ridgway’s wildland firefighters have mopped up hotspots in Nevada, fought wildfire on the front lines in California and protected structures at home in Colorado. Since the Ridgway Fire Protection Dist...
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County chops event center operations to aid budget
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
December 3, 2025
Ouray County is performing triage on its 2026 budget as 2025 revenues are coming in lower than expected, placing even more pressure on the county’s general fund savings. County leaders have been worki...
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New council’s first task: Fill vacancies
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New council’s first task: Fill vacancies
After soliciting applications, councilors to interview, pick appointments Jan. 5
December 3, 2025
Ouray city leaders swore in a new mayor and city councilor Monday night, then turned their attention to the council’s most pressing issue: Finding and appointing two more councilors to fill out the ra...
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Slow start to snow season
Wave of storms helps, but snowpack in San Juans well below normal
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
December 3, 2025
A series of post-Thanksgiving storms delivered desperately needed snow to the moisture-starved San Juans, but snowpack at the start of December remains well below average in Ouray County and the surro...
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SEASON OF SHARING
Ridgway Ouray Community Council
December 3, 2025
Editor's note: The Ouray County Plaindealer is continuing its tradition of featuring nonprofit organizations based in Ouray County, serving Ouray County in a series of profiles called Season of Sharin...
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