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A need for more volunteers
September 24, 2025
Dear Editor: I would like to give kudos and thanks to Ouray County Emergency Medical Services for their event on Saturday, “Fun Ways Not to Die." I learned many valuable tips — and met some cool peopl...
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Article about Space to Create too negative
September 10, 2025
Dear Editor: The origin and theory behind the Space To Create movement is tied to the common phenomenon where creative individuals, looking for affordable and functional space, move into semi-industri...
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When things go wrong, help is quick to arrive
September 10, 2025
Dear Editor: While I was taking a walk in Fellin Park a couple of weeks ago, I was bitten by an off-leash, unvaccinated dog. Sometimes unfortunate things do happen. The dog's owner was responsive to t...
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Weiser for governor
September 10, 2025
Dear Editor: My wife and I support Attorney General Phil Weiser for governor of Colorado. He recently came to Ouray County to speak to citizens about his visions if he's elected governor. The affair w...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Thanks, first responders
Thanks, first responders
September 10, 2025
Dear Editor: My most sincere thanks to the Ouray Volunteer Fire Department, Ouray County EMS, the Ouray Police Department and all responders to the numerous calls you have been responding to this summ...
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Let it be known: Care must come before cuts
By Dear Editor: 
September 3, 2025
I just watched (well, when I first wrote this) the president of the U.S. meet with seven key European leaders, along with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy. They were obsequiously complimentary and the U....
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Letters, Opinion...
Highway near Billy Creek can be improved
By Dear Editor: 
September 3, 2025
The article regarding all the accidents on U.S. Highway 550 left the impression that little could be done. That is probably true on the section south of Ouray where there isn’t room for a guardrail. B...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Don’t allow U.S. 550 to become like ‘Killer 82’
By Dear Editor: 
September 3, 2025
Whether local or visitor, commuter or sightseer, we are all affected by the tragic fatalities, devastating injuries and, yes, even the miraculous walkaways associated with this summer’s rash of vehicu...
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Letters, Opinion...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Honor Labor Day, remember working families
By Dear Editor: 
September 3, 2025
Each year, our community gathers to celebrate Labor Day — a holiday meant to honor the sacrifices and victories of working people in America. But as I watched this year’s parade, I couldn’t help but n...
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Letters, Opinion...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
County shouldn’t use public land to meet needs
By Dear Editor: 
September 3, 2025
I'm disappointed to read in the Aug. 28 Ouray County Plaindealer that Ouray County commissioners Lynn Padgett and Jake Niece even considered a Bureau of Land Management parcel for its medical services...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
We must thwart this attack on democracy
August 27, 2025
Dear Editor: Ouray County residents, like Americans everywhere, are realizing the cold and seemingly intentional cruelty of Donald Trump’s relentless quest to dismantle our government and replace it w...
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Letters, Opinion...
Public safety headed in the right direction
August 27, 2025
Dear Editor: I am so pleased to see the direction public safety issues are going in the city of Ouray as well as Ouray County after some difficult times. Michelle Metteer is a treasure as your new adm...
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Letters
Time to lower the speed limit on U.S. 550
August 20, 2025
Dear Editor: Hardly a week goes by without another fatal accident on U.S. Highway 550, it seems. Or am I just imagining things? Winter or summer, events conspire, someone dies and the road is closed f...
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Letters
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Revisiting postal history
August 20, 2025
Dear Editor: I read with interest Ms. Snowbarger’s column, “The West’s Unsung Heroes? Post Offices” in the Aug. 7, 2025, issue of the Plaindealer. Postal history, particularly that of Ouray County and...
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Letters
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
A plea to think, slow down — or go away
August 20, 2025
Dear Editor: I wonder if you know … I wonder if you know that the car you are recklessly and illegally passing has a new driver with a permit or just got their driver's license … Or maybe it's an elde...
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Letters
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Why is fairgrounds arena closed to public?
August 20, 2025
Dear Editor: What is going on with the arena at the Ouray County Fairgrounds? We went there back on the Fourth of July to do some ground work with our horses and introduce a novice rider to horsemansh...
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Letters
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
A reminder: If you pack it in, pack it out
August 6, 2025
Dear Editor: To those who use our trails and any of our beautiful outdoors: Please take everything with you when you are finished hiking, biking or whatever activity you may have been doing! That incl...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Hurd not looking out for average citizen
July 30, 2025
Dear Editor: Our congressman, Jeff Hurd, is not looking out for the average citizen in his district. He pretended to be concerned about the huge cuts to Medicaid but it did not stop him from voting in...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Hurd’s words don’t match his actions
July 23, 2025
Dear Editor: I just don’t get Congressman Jeff Hurd. He says his decisions are always based on what’s best for our district. But then he votes for Trump’s big budget bill that slashes funding for heal...
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Letters
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Lucky to have newspaper
Lucky to have newspaper
By Dear Editor: 
July 9, 2025
Thank you, Mike and Erin at the Plaindealer, for screening such an excellent documentary, “For the Record,” on June 28 at the Wright Opera House. The entire time we were watching the film, we were thi...
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Ridgway girls run down state title
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Young team blows past competition to hoist Class 2A cross country trophy
By By Matt Meyer Special to the Plaindealer 
November 5, 2025
There isn’t a perfect translation for “hill” in Chinese. That's something Natasha Hessler discovered when she arrived at the famous creek crossing during the Colorado State Cross Country Championship ...
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Underwood elected mayor
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ELECTION 2025
Underwood elected mayor
Hart joins council, which needs to fill two spots
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
November 5, 2025
Ouray City Councilor Michael Underwood won election to the mayor’s seat Tuesday night, succeeding on a campaign that emphasized fiscal conservatism and a vow to fix what he perceives as a disconnect b...
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News
Property tax hikes pass for cemetery, fire districts
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
November 5, 2025
Voters Tuesday night approved tax increases for the Cedar Hill Cemetery District and the Ouray Fire Protection District. A measure to increase the cemetery district’s mill levy from 0.33 mills to 1 mi...
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ELECTION 2025
Voters approve new county lodging tax
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
November 5, 2025
Voters in unincorporated Ouray County approved a new 6% lodging tax that is expected to provide more than $182,000 in additional funding during a tight 2026 budget year and into the future. The measur...
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News
ELECTION 2025
Fagrelius, Meruelo win school board seats
By Erin McIntyre erin@ouraynews.com 
November 5, 2025
Ouray voters have chosen two former educators to join the Ouray School Board, according to unofficial results from Tuesday’s election. Three candidates competed for two open seats on the school board,...
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