Videos Login Subscribe Renew E-edition
logo
ePaper
coogle_play
app_store
  • News
  • Features
  • Opinion
    • Columns
    • Letters
  • Obituaries
  • Classifieds
    • Place a Classified
  • Advertise
  • Contact us
  • Legal Notices
    • Read Statewide Legal Notices
  • Archives
    • News
    • Features
    • Opinion
      • Columns
      • Letters
    • Obituaries
    • Classifieds
      • Place a Classified
    • Advertise
    • Contact us
    • Legal Notices
      • Read Statewide Legal Notices
    • Archives
Letters
Yes to deputies, no to bureaucrats
September 27, 2023
Dear Editor: It was reported in last week’s Plaindealer that Ouray County government had grown 70% from 50 employees in 2003 to 85 in 2023. Simple research indicates that our population grew from 3,88...
this is a test
Letters
Gottorff coverage appreciated
September 27, 2023
Dear Editor: Many thanks to you all for the coverage of David Gottorff and his effect on the community. Your coverage was complete, detailing his family responses and his own. Much appreciated. Ilene ...
this is a test
Letters
Kudos, firefighters, for response
September 27, 2023
Dear Editor: I would like to extend a tremendous “thank you” to the Log Hill Volunteer Fire Department for their rapid response to my home on Sept. 19 at 3 a.m. Station 2 Capt. Paul Oppenheim and Just...
this is a test
Letters
Hotel owners act to own detriment by dismissing bookshop
September 27, 2023
Dear Editor: Since my retirement I have had a delightful part-time position at the Ouray Bookshop. There I get to see youngsters light up when they discover a teepee with a flickering campfire near th...
this is a test
Letters
Community offers love, source of strength in time of loss
September 27, 2023
Dear Editor: A mother knows that it takes a village to raise a child. But we are learning that our village is helping us grieve the loss of one. It is with heavy hearts that we write to express our de...
this is a test
Letters
Athletic Park needs more ballfields, not non-athletic facets
September 27, 2023
Dear Editor: As hopefully most of you are aware, Ridgway is currently working on their Athletic Park master plan. As a board member for Ouray County Baseball (a local nonprofit that runs a baseball pr...
this is a test
Letters
Ouray should use sales tax windfall to resolve ‘hot’ issues
September 20, 2023
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: Allow me to double-down on topics: one very “hot” and prominent, and the other potentially more “hot” but on the back burner. I trust that many Ouray-area citizens an...
this is a test
Letters
Tax increase cap would degrade services
September 20, 2023
Dear Editor: I spent some time last month at the fabulous Ridgway Rendezvous Art and Craft Festival. I must congratulate the organizers, Weehawken Creative Arts and their executive director, Ashley Ki...
this is a test
Letters
Bookstore closure would be a ‘tragedy’
September 20, 2023
Dear Editor: Let me tell you an imaginary story. I live in a small yet diverse community, with generations of my family. My grandma is a wonderful lady who has lived here her entire life, as have I. S...
this is a test
Letters
Is community interested in resurrecting a Winter Carnival?
September 20, 2023
Dear Editor: Years ago, in response to my wife's death by avalanche, the Ridgway ski community worked together to initiate the first (and last) Winter Carnival for mountain safety. The event was very ...
this is a test
Letters
Ouray should learn from Maui
September 13, 2023
Dear Editor: One factor in the loss of life from the wildland fires on Maui has been attributed to the lack of warning of the need to evacuate Lāhainā. Their cellphone notification system was not suff...
this is a test
Letters
Renewing bookshop lease right thing to do
September 13, 2023
Dear Editor: It is hard to envision an institution that is more evocative of the Beaumont Hotel's storied and sophisticated past than the bookshop that has occupied the storefront of the hotel since D...
this is a test
Letters
Bookshop is essence of Ouray
September 13, 2023
Dear Editor: I am not a resident of Ouray but have been visiting repeatedly since the early 1970s and have frequented the bookstore ever since it opened. It has been a hallmark of the very essence of ...
this is a test
Letters
PPP money given to businesses would help housing crisis
September 13, 2023
Dear Editor: Ouray County retail businesses benefi tted immensely from a rapid increase in tourism during the pandemic. Unintended consequences from myriad stimulus programs, top ups and deferments ma...
this is a test
Letters
Bookstore an asset to town
September 13, 2023
Dear Editor: With the news that the lease at the Beaumont for the Ouray Bookshop will not be renewed, we see another example of newcomers in Ouray wanting to change things. Newcomers to Ouray always e...
this is a test
Letters
Housing project full of smoke and mirrors
September 6, 2023
Dear Editor: I attended a Ouray City Council workshop last week involving the Waterview affordable housing project. It seems the developer now has requested to (not) pave the street in this subdivisio...
this is a test
Letters
Be part of the pool solution
September 6, 2023
Dear Editor: Over the last couple of years certain issues, particularly lower water temperatures, have caused a great deal of discontent among our citizens who have known and loved the Ouray Hot Sprin...
this is a test
Letters
Diligence required to preserve public access
August 30, 2023
Dear Editor: I read with concern your article in the Aug. 24 edition of the Plaindealer about an illegal gate installed on County Road 14 by a Ouray city councilor and disguised to appear to be an off...
this is a test
Letters
Questions for Ouray council candidates
August 30, 2023
Dear Editor: As relatively new part-time residents to Ouray, here are the top five questions I'd like our mayoral and city council candidates to answer: 1. How do you think we should address employee ...
this is a test
Letters
4-H, county fair offer abundant learning opportunities
August 23, 2023
Dear Editor: My name is Macey Cornell and I am going into seventh grade at Ridgway Secondary School. I recently finished my first year of 4-H raising lambs and chickens. I also crocheted a lamb in the...
this is a test
  • 1
  • …
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • …
  • 18
ePaper
coogle_play
app_store
ePaper
coogle_play
app_store
Editor Picks
City takes plunge on hot springs repairs
Main, News...
City takes plunge on hot springs repairs
Council approves $286,568 contract to resurface, replace tiles in overlook pools in September
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
April 22, 2026
The city of Ouray will spend more than $280,000 to resurface the hottest soaking areas at the Ouray Hot Springs Pool this fall, a repair pool managers say is vital to maintaining one of the city’s mos...
this is a test
County backs down on road closure
Main
County backs down on road closure
Rather than block access to upper Yankee Boy Basin, commissioners focus on managing, restoring
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
April 22, 2026
Ouray County has decided against closing the upper section of Yankee Boy Basin road to motorized traffic, and will work with the U.S. Forest Service and volunteer groups to keep drivers on the main ro...
this is a test
News
County leaders campaign for merger
Commissioner claims benefits to combined fire, EMS; Log Hill Fire District concerned about structure, cost
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
April 22, 2026
Ouray County leaders last week campaigned for a combined countywide fire and emergency services authority at a Log Hill Mesa Fire Protection District meeting, while the district’s board of directors a...
this is a test
News
City keeps status quo on Via Ferrata operations — for now
Climbing course to open soon under new municipal management, as users seek changes to guide fees, weight restrictions
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
April 22, 2026
The Ouray Via Ferrata is scheduled to open May 1 under a new municipal management structure, even as city leaders and commercial guides debate whether to tweak key details like guide fees and weight r...
this is a test
News
Federal officer charged with assault over confrontation at Durango ICE protest
By By Chase Woodruff Colorado Newsline 
April 22, 2026
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer is facing charges of assault and criminal mischief in Colorado state court after an investigation into an October 2025 incident in Durango in which he seiz...
this is a test
Facebook

Remote-triggered avalanche in San Juan Mountains

First responders receive first COVID-19 vaccines

Ouray County Plaindealer
Office address:

195 S Lena St. Unit D
Ridgway, Colorado 81432
970-325-4412

Mailing address:
PO Box 529
Ridgway CO 81432

This site complies with ADA requirements

© 2023 Ouray County Plaindealer

  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • Accessibility Policy