LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: West Springs Hospital is a catchment mental health hospital for the Western Slope of Colorado. They are the only inpatient psychiatric facility and psychiatric emerge...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: Another fumble at the Ouray Hot Springs Pool. Massage therapy no longer has value as an affordable health/wellness option for patrons, according to Pool Manager Mike ...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: Ouray County is in danger of losing one of its iconic panoramas. The U.S. Forest Service has announced that it will begin drawing down Crystal Reservoir with the poss...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: It is of cold comfort to say that I am grateful my child was never a guest at the home of the police chief. Reread that. It's a statement that shouldn't make sense. A...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: I have spent years supporting sexual assault victims who were forced to bear the brutal weight of legal and social systems immediately upon simply reporting what happ...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Thirty-five years ago, as our tours neared Salzburg, Austria, I used to tell our clients traveling through the Alps by motorcycle of a favorite place and an experience that I had ...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: To try and solve Don Carlton’s question about the old signage on the historic barn near Telluride, I did some investigating on my own. In my opinion, I believe the wo...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: I was very pleased to see that the 2024 spending bill keeping the government open included over $1 million for our Corbett Creek Bridge installation. Replacing the b...

Dear Editor: I lived and worked in nine different states during my long life. I enjoyed living in all those places, but Ridgway, Colorado, tops them all! The scenery is spectacular and Ridgway, Ouray ...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: Writing this with a heartache I’ve rarely felt, I want to share that Ridgway lost one of its brightest stars this past week. Communities are rarely blessed with peopl...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: As a full-time resident of Ridgway’s community, I would like to second and thank Jake Niece for expressing frankly his opinions regarding the sexual assault case incl...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: In the Feb. 22-28 edition of the newspaper, the Plaindealer reported that Ouray Police Chief Jeff Wood questioned the credibility of the woman claiming she was raped ...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: On Feb. 21 and 22, the Grand Mesa Uncompaghre and Gunnison National Forest held the final stage of the public engagement for the revised forest plan (known as the obj...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: Here we are again, this time with two rape cases at the same time and a second appearance by a prior defendant in Ouray County. It is encouraging that the Colorado Bu...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: On Dec. 18, 2003, the Ouray Ranger District published a press release announcing the purchase of an 806-acre parcel of mining claim in the Ironton valley. The second ...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: The letter published in the Feb. 22-28 edition under the headline “The perpetuation of rape culture,” by Robyn Cascade, mischaracterized a statement of mine made in a...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: One of the subtle multi-use recreational perks in Ouray is the North Corridor trail system. Its spring, summer and fall uses of hiking, biking and running readily ada...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: I just learned that our amazing Ouray County Public Health Director Tanner Kingery will be moving away soon. I would personally like to thank Tanner for his incredibl...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: In recent quotes and letters related to sexual assault, myths and assumptions that result in victim-blaming, normalization of sexual violence, and perpetuation of rap...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: Even if it has been a bit of a rough patch lately for the Plaindealer, one hopes the editors are not suggesting this as an excuse for being lackadaisical, or even sel...