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Residents mobilize to save Ouray mobile home park
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Residents mobilize to save Ouray mobile home park
Swiss Village homeowners form cooperative, hunt for funding to purchase land
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
July 31, 2024
When the chips are down, Paula Damke isn’t one for sitting by idly. The news that broke in early June that the Swiss Village Mobile Home Park in Ouray was going up for sale rattled many of her neighbo...
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Ouray leader finalist in Telluride
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Ouray leader finalist in Telluride
Clarke one of four vying for town manager
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
July 31, 2024
Outgoing Ouray City Administrator Silas Clarke is a finalist for the Telluride town manager job. Telluride town officials announced Tuesday Clarke is one of four finalists to replace Scott Robson, who...
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LOTTERY WINNERS
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LOTTERY WINNERS
Nine get first dibs at Ouray's Waterview affordable housing project
By Mike Wiggins and Erin McIntyre mike@ouraynews.com erin@ouraynews.com 
July 24, 2024
In the past decade, Kaili Hansen's living situation has been precarious to say the least. The Ouray Brewery cook lived in a house on Second Street for a while, and then moved into another apartment in...
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Unaffiliated candidate withdraws
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Unaffiliated candidate withdraws
Torrey: Doubtful I can pull ample votes from Dems, GOP
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
July 24, 2024
Unaffiliated Ouray County commissioner candidate Jacob Torrey is dropping out of the District 1 race, leaving voters to choose between Democrat incumbent Commissioner Lynn Padgett and Republican chall...
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Fire volunteers ask county for help
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Fire volunteers ask county for help
Commissioners supportive of Horsefly Volunteer Fire Protection, which is seeking $30K a year
By Lia Salvatierra and Deb Hurley Brobst lia@ouraynews.com 
July 19, 2024
The Horsefly Volunteer Fire Protection organization is small but mighty. Its 16 firefighters have the weighty task of being first responders for lightning strikes and other hazards that could potentia...
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SOUNDS OF SUMMER
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SOUNDS OF SUMMER
By Erin McIntyre 
July 18, 2024
Paul McDonald of the Nashville-based alternative rock band Paul McDonald & the Mourning Doves gestures to the crowd during a July 11 concert at Hartwell Park in Ridgway. The 17th annual Ridgway Concer...
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WALLEYE COMING TO RIDGWAY RESERVOIR
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WALLEYE COMING TO RIDGWAY RESERVOIR
By Erin McIntyre erin@ouraynews.com 
March 27, 2024
Introduction of sterile predatory fish meant to reduce population of non-native small-mouth bass, boost angling opportunities If everything goes according to plan, Ridgway Reservoir will have some new...
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DA appeals sanctions in assault case
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DA appeals sanctions in assault case
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
March 27, 2024
Prosecutors seek delay, overturn of exclusion of evidence from hearing Prosecutors have appealed a judge’s decision to exclude evidence from a hearing in a Ouray felony sexual assault case, claiming t...
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Tensions rise during debate on rental regs
By Daniel Schmidt daniel@ouraynews.com 
November 1, 2023
County may evenly split 100 licenses between residents, non-residents Ouray County commissioners last week informally agreed to evenly split the county’s 100 short-term rental licenses between propert...
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Tax question met largely with silence
By Erin McIntyre and Daniel Schmidt erin@ouraynews.com daniel@ouraynews.com 
November 1, 2023
Measure to hike Ridgway lodging tax for housing, child care draws no official supporters, opponents The last time Ridgway voters considered a lodging tax increase in 2015, there was a clear group of p...
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WITCH WAY TO THE CHAPEL?
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WITCH WAY TO THE CHAPEL?
November 1, 2023
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Contractor ordered to halt digging
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Contractor ordered to halt digging
By Daniel Schmidt daniel@ouraynews.com 
July 19, 2023
Residents of Panoramic Heights, county worried about potential exposure to toxic metals The video on John Pulbratek’s iPhone showed a cloud of dust flung high above the Panoramic Heights neighborhood ...
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Ridgway man sentenced to prison in sex assault case
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Ridgway man sentenced to prison in sex assault case
By Mike Wiggins 
June 6, 2025
A judge sentenced a Ridgway man to three years in prison Thursday for sexually assaulting a 28-year-old woman in 2023 after he claimed he was drunk and thought she was his wife. Brian Scranton, 49, hu...
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Fire victims in limbo
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Fire victims in limbo
Three years after federal prescribed burn destroyed their home, family has no answers or compensation
By Erin McIntyre erin@ouraynews.com 
June 4, 2025
She spent three months carefully itemizing everything they lost in the fire, trying to remember what was in kitchen drawers and closets. Every piece of silverware, furniture, clothing, appliances and ...
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Wildfire mitigation nonprofit shrinks
Expecting funding cuts, West Region Wildfire Council trims staff, ends free services
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
June 4, 2025
Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect that the West Region Wildfire Council received $7,184.63 donations from individuals in 2023. The Plaindealer received this information from the no...
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Mobile home park deed restrictions delayed
Swiss Village residents say limitations too restrictive
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
June 4, 2025
The Ouray City Council postponed approving a series of deed restrictions for the Swiss Village Mobile Home Park on Monday after residents who are on the cusp of buying the property objected, saying th...
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A HEART FOR ADVOCACY
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A HEART FOR ADVOCACY
After leading special education services in the San Juans for 12 years,Tammy Johnson is retiring, giving way to a new director
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
June 4, 2025
A good administrator never forgets what it’s like to be a teacher. Those are the words signing off Tammy Johnson’s email and ones she’s lived by while leading the Uncompahgre Board of Cooperative Educ...
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