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Sex assault trial may be moved, delayed
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Sex assault trial may be moved, delayed
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
May 14, 2025
The trial of one of three men accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl in the former police chief's home could be postponed and moved out of Ouray County. Cindy Hyatt, one of the attorneys fo...
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Skimpy snowpack slipping away
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Skimpy snowpack slipping away
Liquid content of snow in Gunnison River Basin among lowest since 1981
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
May 14, 2025
The warning lights have been blinking for months. The city of Ouray postponed its annual Cabin Fever Day in mid-February for lack of snow on Lee’s Ski Hill, then moved the event to Fellin Park on Marc...
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WICKEDLY GOOD
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WICKEDLY GOOD
May 14, 2025
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Ridgway: Flagship home for Earth insignia?
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Ridgway: Flagship home for Earth insignia?
Resident asks town to be first to fly planet's flag
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
May 7, 2025
It’s been planted in Antarctica, held up in the Himalayas and waved by conservationist Jane Goodall at a rally in New York City. But Ridgway could be the world's first place to formally adopt and fly ...
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Wolves arrive in Ouray County
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Wolves arrive in Ouray County
Nonprofit aims to help ranchers as activity detected in NW corner
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
May 7, 2025
For the first time since their release in Colorado nearly 18 months ago, gray wolves have crossed into Ouray County. A Colorado Parks and Wildlife map tracing wolf movement between March 25 and April ...
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Signed, sealed, retired
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Signed, sealed, retired
After serving Ridgway postal customers for 22 years, Laura Hagert puts a stamp on her career
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
April 30, 2025
On any other day — except Sunday, of course — they would flood her counter, a constant stream of people entrusting her with greeting cards for loved ones, seeking her help finding missing packages, st...
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Schools brace for funding changes
Proposed formula may hit harder in Ridgway, which is losing students
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
April 30, 2025
A series of proposed changes in how the state of Colorado funds K-12 education is expected to hit the Ridgway School District harder than the Ouray School District over the next few years due to formu...
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AN EASTER SHELL-EBRATION
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AN EASTER SHELL-EBRATION
April 23, 2025
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County rejects $11,000 legal bill
Commissioners cite lack of justification for reimbursement; Padgett alleges process flawed
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
April 23, 2025
Ouray County taxpayers won’t foot Commissioner Lynn Padgett’s nearly $11,000 legal bill after commissioners Jake Niece and Michelle Nauer voted against her reimbursement request on Tuesday. Padgett an...
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Deportation fears add to resort workers’ mental health problems
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Deportation fears add to resort workers’ mental health problems
By By Natalie Skowlund KFF Health News 
April 16, 2025
SILVERTHORNE — When Adolfo Román García-Ramírez walks home in the evening from his shift at a grocery store in this central Colorado mountain town, sometimes he thinks back on his childhood in Nicarag...
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Uncertainty over federal cuts remains
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
April 16, 2025
Federal funding slashes and freezes may mean emptier food pantry shelves, fewer library resources and cuts to public health, emergency management and environmental projects in Ouray County. The Trump ...
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Ridgway, landowner battle over property
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Ridgway, landowner battle over property
Town seeks condemnation for walking path; owner insists no public benefit
By Erin McIntyre erin@ouraynews.com 
April 16, 2025
The landowner who fenced his property and put up “no trespassing” signs to keep children from cutting through his River Park lot to get to school is fighting the town of Ridgway's attempt to condemn t...
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Ouray’s new top cop promises integrity, accountability and transparency
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Ouray’s new top cop promises integrity, accountability and transparency
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
April 9, 2025
For more than a year, Ouray’s search for a police officer proved fruitless, yielding only the same copy-and-paste monthly update to the City Council — the police department was still seeking a full-ti...
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Detained Ouray mother in limbo
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Detained Ouray mother in limbo
After two months in an immigration detention center, a woman with a work permit faces an uncertain future even after criminal charges against her were dropped
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
April 9, 2025
AURORA, Colo. — Before this, she had never been away from her daughter for more than a week. Aurora Yadira Mireles Terrazas has spent the past two months struggling to stomach meals or get any real sl...
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City buys property for police, housing
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City buys property for police, housing
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
April 9, 2025
The Ouray City Council signed off Monday night on the purchase of a two-story building across the street from City Hall, with the intent of converting it into a police station and temporary employee h...
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RALLY FOR THE REPUBLIC
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RALLY FOR THE REPUBLIC
April 2, 2025
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Pushback grows over road plowing
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Pushback grows over road plowing
Landowners seeking wintertime motorized access increasingly encountering opposition
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
April 2, 2025
Outrage over wintertime wheeled access on public county roads is resurging as Ouray County residents scorn new requests from private landowners to plow public roads and argue the county’s snow-protect...
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County mulls stipend for planning commission
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
April 2, 2025
Ouray County commissioners are debating whether to offer planning commissioners a stipend after about a month of struggling to recruit replacements for four openings on the commission. Four planning c...
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OFF WITH THE LACES
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OFF WITH THE LACES
March 26, 2025
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Padgett: County should pay legal bill
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Padgett: County should pay legal bill
Commissioner seeks reimbursement of $11,000; board to discuss request in April
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
March 26, 2025
Ouray County Commissioner Lynn Padgett is asking the county to pay nearly $11,000 for the attorney she hired after the county road and bridge superintendent filed a harassment complaint against her la...
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Field of dreams realized
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Field of dreams realized
Community celebrates opening of new $4 million athletic complex
By Erin McIntyre erin@ouraynews.com 
September 17, 2025
The runners pounded out miles on dirt trails, gravel roads and sidewalks ringing public parks. They launched themselves over hurdles in carpeted hallways of the school, sometimes crashing into the met...
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Ouray to ditch large downtown signs
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Ouray to ditch large downtown signs
Public pans signs as out of place, will review smaller prototypes
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
September 17, 2025
The city of Ouray is prepared to scrap a series of new large signs installed this summer in the downtown core meant to direct drivers to various locations in favor of smaller signs, acceding to reside...
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Councilors: Ouray residents, company need to do better securing trash
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
September 17, 2025
With bears loading up on calories in preparation for hibernation, some Ouray city councilors said they're looking for both residents and the city's trash services provider to do better to ensure bears...
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County looks to curb 2026 budget
Plan calls for 2.5% cost-of-living employee salary increase; sheriff pulls request for additional deputy
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
September 17, 2025
After years of growth, Ouray County leaders are working together to find ways to rein in or hold costs steady in 2026. During a special work session Tuesday, county officials looked at an early draft ...
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Ridgway may expand wildland fire operations
Fire district contemplates adding two positions, new engine
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
September 17, 2025
The Ridgway Fire Protection District is looking to expand its wildland firefighting capabilities by hiring two new positions and buying a new, top-tier wildland fire engine. Expanding the department’s...
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