Some Ouray County employers have asked workers to get coronavirus antibody tests in order to return to work, against the advice of medical experts who question the tests’ value and accuracy. In the la...

The Ouray Hot Springs Pool reopened Monday with limited guests and facilities, more than three months after closing. Instead of the hundreds of people who would typically visit on a warm June day, th...

Local governments across Colorado saw their sales tax revenue crater in June in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, but in Ouray County the results were decidedly mixed. The city of Ouray reported a 27...

Ouray County has submitted a request to the state to allow pools to admit 200 people or 75 percent of capacity. County commissioners, acting as the Board of Health, approved the variance request to be...

One by one, masked congregants walked up to a small altar at the United Church of the San Juans, weaving carefully between sets of chairs arranged 6 feet apart. They each selected a plate holding a Co...

Ouray County’s 4-H Events Center will reopen for church services after being closed for months due to COVID-19 restrictions. Grace Community Church will be the first group to hold events at the facili...

The city of Ouray plans to reopen the Hot Springs Pool and fitness center early next week, more than three months after the facilities were shut down in the early stages of the COVID-i9 pandemic. Acti...

By Robert Stoufer Editor's Note: This column was printed in this week's edition of the Plaindealer as part of a special section from the Ouray County Historical Society. Please pick up a copy to read...

By P. Balaram Editor's Note: This article was printed as part of a special section for the Ouray County Historical Society in the Plaindealer this week. Please pick up a copy of the paper to read more...

The Ouray County Fair isn’t canceled – but it’s definitely going to look different this year due to COVID-19. There won’t be any indoor exhibits, no pie-baking contest, no jellies and jams awarded rib...

Editor's note: This article was published as part of a special section for the Ouray County Historical Society in this week's edition of the Plaindealer. Please pick up a copy to learn more about how ...

By Don Paulson Editor's note: This column was printed in the Plaindealer as part of a special section for the Ouray County Historical Society. Please pick up a copy of this week's paper to learn more ...

Ouray County commissioners will decide next week when — and how — the 4-H Events Center will reopen, and will likely also consider a variance request for larger capacities to be allowed at pools. Even...

Justin Perry sits alone at a picnic table, scrolling through his phone, mask around his neck. Campaign literature and yard signs are spread out next to him, untouched. On this mild spring day, when n...

Their assignment came in the first week of April: head to Ouray to help the county with logistics and planning in response to the coronavirus pandemic. There were few specifics in place when Army Nati...

When students return to school this fall, they could undergo temperature checks at doors, attend on staggered schedules, and shift back and forth between in-school and online learning, under plans bei...

As he walks through Ouray Brewery, owner Erin Eddy watches as customers touch countertops or grab the hand railings on the stairs. He notices when a bartender touches her face, or when someone adjusts...

Pool operators are asking Ouray County to pursue a variance to allow more swimmers than a statewide limitation, to make opening more financially viable now that the state is allowing them to reopen. T...

I’ve found myself doing things I never because of this pandemic. At first it was mostly about isolation and sanitation. I washed everything to the point where my hands, left cracked and stinging, star...

A 61-year-old Ouray County woman who recovered from a suspected case of COVID-19 after having symptoms back in March is being counted as a “probable” case of coronavirus by the state. This makes the c...