50 Years Ago June 19, 1975 Dick Guadagno, Ridgway, came to the Ouray City Council meeting Monday night to ask council approval of a project to renovate the historic Horsethief Trail this summer. Guada...

May 29, 1975 – Since the first of this month, Ouray has been served electric power by the San Miguel Power Association, Inc. The association purchased distribution facilities in this area from the Wes...

May 1, 1975 – The statement from Congressman Frank Evans in Washington, as reported in the Plaindealer last week, has been confirmed this week, at the local level, concerning a possible offer to buy s...

April 24, 1975 – In spite of cold weather and intermittently blizzardy conditions, Ouray School students participated in the Paul Revere Day fundraising, April 18. A group went out again on Sunday, wh...

April 3, 1975 – "Kemmerer Coal Co. will proceed with coal development with or without water from the Dallas Project." That remark has been heard and published frequently in the past week, in quotation...

March 20, 1975 – Richard Tisdel, the Ouray City Council's attorney, has gone through all the records concerning the various suits and legal actions against the city of Ouray pertaining to the city's w...

March 13, 1975 – Mountain Bell has asked the Colorado Public Utilities Commission for emergency approval of a $1.30 a month increase in one-party monthly residence telephone rates statewide, plus othe...

January 31, 1975 – Ouray's first Centennial- Bicentennial event took place Monday night this week in a "gentle blizzard," a somewhat appropriate setting in mid-January that failed to dampen the spirit...

January 24, 1975 – Most of the threehour meeting of the Ouray City Council Monday night was concerning garbage and the new two-hour parking restrictions on Main Street. About 20 citizens of this commu...

January 17, 1975 – While it was a scramble earlier last week to clear slides from the Camp Bird Mine road, the State Highway Department saw little action on U.S. 550 (the Million Dollar Highway) until...

January 10, 1975 – Jan. 27 is the date in 1950 when Ouray City Hall was almost totally destroyed by fire of undetermined origin that broke out late that night and left only three walls standing of the...

50 YEARS AGO January 3, 1975 – John Wilson, 28, of Ouray suffered the loss of his left arm in an accident at the Camp Bird Mill Dec. 28. The accident occurred between 3:30 and 4 p.m. According to Jim ...

50 YEARS AGO December 20, 1974 – A petition is being circulated in Ouray this week by Lynn Barry, which already has a good number of signatures from residents opposing the proposed garbage ordinance, ...

November 29, 1974 – Adult education courses in Ouray were still under consideration, the School Improvement Committee reported at the Nov. 25 School Board meeting. Depending on interest, 12 courses wo...

Nov. 22, 1974 Of 25 Ridgway students entering the 30-hour Starvathon at the school Nov. 16-17, 13 were dropouts. The Starvathon began at 4 p.m. Nov. 15, and ended the next night at 10 p.m. Mr. and Mrs...

November 15, 1974 – In the days of high prices and shortages, homemakers wanted to know how to stretch a limited sugar supply. "Americans normally consume a lot of sugar - about 100 pounds per year," ...

Nov. 8, 1974 Clyde Peppin of Ouray fell asleep at the wheel of his vehicle coming home from a night shift at the Idarado Mine and struck three other cars parked on Main Street last Friday morning. Pep...

Dear Editor: This letter is in response to the query printed in the Oct. 10 edition about the weaning of calves on a ranch near Ridgway. First, I am so glad that the ranchers responded so maturely and...

July 25, 1974 – James McGuire, Ouray City Police deputy, received a call from his dispatcher around 10:30 Monday night, that someone had reported two men climbing on the roof of the Beaumont Hotel on ...

Last week I thought spring might have sprung as grass and dandelions morphed from beige to green, aspen cattails rioted in soft breezes, crocus bloomed, and love-hungry birds broadcast mating calls. T...