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Yee-haw! Let’s celebrate history with Old West Fest
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Yee-haw! Let’s celebrate history with Old West Fest
By Carolyn Snowbarger 
September 8, 2021
Ridgway, our little mountain town, is known for many things – our San Juan Mountains, the home of the Grammy, and a vibrant art community. Our town’s history is equally broad – ranching, trains, and m...
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Joy of Purpose: A rabble rouser and a helper
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Joy of Purpose: A rabble rouser and a helper
By Alexandra Mitchell Jeff Pryor 
September 8, 2021
Dolgio Nergui came to Colorado with a goal of becoming a ski bum, but she instead joined a community where she found a desire to help others in the outdoors. Dolgio is originally from Mongolia and cam...
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New principal returns to mountain town life
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New principal returns to mountain town life
By Carolina Brown 
August 25, 2021
After five years working as a principal in Europe, Heidi Hanssen is happy to have landed at her new job – at the helm of Ridgway Elementary School. It's not the first time she's lived in the Colorado ...
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Track team runs down a dream
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Track team runs down a dream
By Mike Wiggins 
July 1, 2021
The track and field season ended before it even started last year for Ouray, Ridgway and Silverton student-athletes, teasing them with a few practices before COVID-19 yanked it away from them prior t...
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MAKING A RUN FOR STATE
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MAKING A RUN FOR STATE
By News Staff 
June 23, 2021
Left: Ouray track athletes Paton Edwards (1), Owen Lane (2), Canyon Ishikawa (4) and Corey Thomsen (5) compete at the Pirate Invitational Meet in Olathe on June 17. Right: Kaitlyn Winkelmann takes th...
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Film fest to play to capacity crowd
By Mike Wiggins 
June 23, 2021
Last year felt like a loss to Jake Abell. To be certain, the fact that the 2009 Ouray School graduate was able to collaborate with co-founders Terry Kiser and Jared LaCroix to press on with the inaugu...
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Private retreat opens to the public
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Private retreat opens to the public
By Carolina Brown 
May 26, 2021
A secret gem tucked away in the far northwest corner of Ouray County is waking up this spring after nearly a decade of hibernation. Elk Mountain Resort, once a private retreat for celebrities and thos...
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Iconic spa, lodge receives facelift
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Iconic spa, lodge receives facelift
By Carolina Brown 
May 26, 2021
The pandemic brought an unexpected opportunity to one of Ouray’s iconic places to stay and soak. Now the Wiesbaden Hot Springs, Spa and Lodge is celebrating a facelift and a reinvigorated atmosphere. ...
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Athletic director wins statewide award
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Athletic director wins statewide award
By Mike Wiggins 
April 1, 2021
Approaching the end of his 42nd year at Ouray School, there’s pretty much no job Bernie Pearce hasn’t done — and done exceptionally well. Teacher of math, Spanish, chemistry and physics. Coach of near...
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New year, new owners for Box Canyon Lodge
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New year, new owners for Box Canyon Lodge
By News Staff 
February 4, 2021
The question seems funny now. When Rich and Karen Avery bought Box Canyon Lodge & Hot Springs, someone asked them what sort of experience they had in the hospitality industry. “Our experience was we h...
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THE VIA FERRATA’S RAPID ASCENSION
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THE VIA FERRATA’S RAPID ASCENSION
By Mike Wiggins 
January 28, 2021
When a line began to form on summer weekends as the day’s first light peeked over the top of the Amphitheater and spilled into the Uncompahgre Gorge — that’s when the operators of the Ouray Via Ferrat...
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Joy of purpose: Celebrating the difference-makers
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Joy of purpose: Celebrating the difference-makers
By Jeff Pryor Alexandra Mitchell 
December 3, 2020
When we were on a book tour in New Zealand, we came across a country inn marquee advertising the “Best Muscles in the World,” green-lipped ones. We pulled in. Mussels (not muscles), beer and a band -w...
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Larger than life
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Larger than life
By Erin McIntyre 
August 20, 2020
Duane Beamer was shoeing horses the first time he met Vince Kontny. It was summer 1987 at the San Juan Guest Ranch. Vince brought his family for the Fourth of July holiday, and he took an interest in...
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A new job in a familiar place
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A new job in a familiar place
By Carolina Brown And Mike Wiggins 
August 20, 2020
Tod Lokey has returned to his childhood playground. The 43-year-old was hired as superintendent and high school principal of Ouray School in May amidst COVID-19 closures across the state and country a...
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Everything’s great – except for that old coot in the mirror
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Everything’s great – except for that old coot in the mirror
By Willie Richardson 
August 20, 2020
I'm a retired horse trainer living in my beloved childhood home town of Ridgway. The national forests are my playground and every day is a holiday. I have a wonderful wife, Sandy, and I've got countle...
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Remembering Walt Rule, a society founder
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Remembering Walt Rule, a society founder
By News Staff 
June 17, 2020
The Ouray County Historical Society received word that Walter Rule, longtime OCHS Board member, died on April 18 of this year. Walt was a remarkable man who loved history and its preservation. Walt wa...
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New cop on the beat: Meet Chief Wood
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New cop on the beat: Meet Chief Wood
By Mike Wiggins 
December 23, 2019
  As a commanding officer for a sheriff’s office staffed by 300 sworn deputies just outside the Washington, D.C., beltway, there was too much opportunity for Jeff Wood to experience the worst in peopl...
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‘I don’t know this town without her’
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‘I don’t know this town without her’
By Mike Wiggins 
December 4, 2019
  If you were looking for the perfect dress for this weekend’s social event, Dee Hilton would not only help you pick it out, she’d offer you an honest opinion about how you looked, not simply tell you...
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MURAL IN BLOOM
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MURAL IN BLOOM
By Erin McIntyre 
June 12, 2025
Artist Yulia Avgustinovich works on the mural she was commissioned to paint on the southeast side of the Space to Create building in Ridgway on Monday. Avgustinovich, who has been a professional mural...
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Prison ordered in sex assault
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Prison ordered in sex assault
Judge: Crime shows 'true character' of Ridgway man alternately commended, castigated
By Mike Wiggins and Erin McIntyre mike@ouraynews.com erin@ouraynews.com 
June 11, 2025
A judge has sentenced a Ridgway man to three years in prison for sexually assaulting a 28-year-old woman in 2023 after he claimed he was drunk and thought she was his wife. Brian Scranton, 49, hugged ...
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Road, retaining wall fixes nearing $300K
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
June 11, 2025
The cost of repairing County Road 361 and a retaining wall following a large rockfall is nearing $300,000, a sum Ouray County is paying in full. When commissioners declared the event an emergency in F...
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Trail closures could trigger domino effect
With Blue Lakes, part of Imogene Pass off limits,other areas could see more wear and tear
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
June 11, 2025
Closures of beloved hiking and off-highway vehicle trails in and around Ouray County this summer could congest and pressure other areas. The popular Blue Lakes trailhead is closed through August due t...
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New power contract amplifies local control
San Miguel Power can generate up to 20% of own energy under Tri-State deal through 2050
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
June 11, 2025
San Miguel Power Association will continue to purchase power from Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association for the next 25 years under a revised contract that gives it the ability to generate...
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