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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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Public health sounds alarm on measles
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Public health sounds alarm on measles
Director flags falsehoods about virus, cites concern about low preschool vaccination rate
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
April 16, 2025
As measles cases continue to crop up in Colorado, Ouray County Public Health Director Kristin Kelley is encouraging residents to vaccinate against the highly contagious disease, especially at the Ridg...
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City wades into mobile home deed restrictions
Rules meant to keep Swiss Village affordable after sale
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
April 16, 2025
Ouray city councilors are beginning to sort through a package of deed restrictions intended to maintain Swiss Village Mobile Home Park as affordable housing after its residents purchase the property l...
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Ouray man suspected of vandalizing restaurant
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Ouray man suspected of vandalizing restaurant
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
April 16, 2025
A Ouray man was arrested last weekend after he allegedly broke out a window at the Outlaw Restaurant. William Kropuenske, 33, was booked into the Montrose County Jail on suspicion of felony criminal m...
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County plots next manager hiring steps
Commissioners to tap consulting firm, hope to employ new executive within six months
By Deb Hurley Brobst Special to the Plaindealer 
April 16, 2025
Ouray County commissioners hope to hire a county manager in the next six months by using a similar process the city of Ouray used to hire its city administrator. The first step, they decided at a work...
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Mixed reviews, votes for proposed guest ranch
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
April 16, 2025
Editor's note: This story has been corrected to correctly attribute comments about property taxation made by Gold Mountain Ranch Operations Manager Keller Herrin. ____________ A proposed guest ranch w...
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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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Design options unveiled for hot springs bathhouse
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Design options unveiled for hot springs bathhouse
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
April 9, 2025
An architect unveiled Monday night three potential concepts for the design of the exterior of a new bathhouse at the Ouray Hot Springs Pool, giving the public a glimpse of what the entrance to the poo...
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Land swap planned for Idarado houses property
Mining claim would be donated to county, traded to Forest Service
By Deb Hurley Brobst Special to the Plaindealer Deb Hurley-Brobst is a longtime, award-winning journalist. She can be reached at deb.hurley.brobst@gmail.com. 
April 9, 2025
Some might call Pat Willits a matchmaker. Willits, the Trust for Land Restoration executive director, has come up with a plan to get Ouray County the property under two of the four historic Idarado ho...
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Plaindealer wins 11 awards in four-state journalism contest
By Plaindealer Staff Report Plaindealer@ouraynews.com 
April 9, 2025
The Ouray County Plaindealer earned 11 awards last weekend from the regional, four-state Society of Professional Journalists' Top of the Rockies competition for the newspaper's work in 2024. The conte...
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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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School improvements slated for summer
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
April 2, 2025
The areas where Ridgway School District students gather to socialize, eat, study and host musical and theatrical performances will receive roughly $1 million of improvements this summer. Work at Ridgw...
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7th District to receive additional judge
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
April 2, 2025
The 7th Judicial District, which includes Ouray County, will receive a sixth district court judge next year, after Gov. Jared Polis signed a Senate spending bill into law last week. The bill adds 15 d...
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RALLY FOR THE REPUBLIC
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RALLY FOR THE REPUBLIC
April 2, 2025
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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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City attorney resigns
By LIA SALVATIERRA 
September 5, 2025
Ouray City Attorney Carol Viner is retiring from her position with the city after nearly a decade. During a Sept. 2 city council meeting, Mayor Ethan Funk said the city will rely on Glenwood Springs-b...
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City seeks options to reduce wildfire danger, without federal funds
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City seeks options to reduce wildfire danger, without federal funds
Ouray launches committee to find local solutions
By LIA SALVATIERRA 
September 5, 2025
Ouray city leaders are exploring other ways to address dead, fallen trees littering neighborhoods and hillsides now that it's unclear when a large-scale, federally funded wildfire mitigation project w...
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No ifs, ands or bucks
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No ifs, ands or bucks
September 3, 2025
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Senator gets earful from local leaders
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Senator gets earful from local leaders
In face of funding turmoil, Hickenlooper urges officials to find creative solutions
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
September 3, 2025
U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper encouraged local nonprofit leaders and public officials to persevere, find ways to do more with less money and look for opportunities to change systems during a visit to Ou...
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Reality varies from initial vision
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SPACE TO CREATE: THREE YEARS LATER
Reality varies from initial vision
Is Ouray County's first affordable housing project a success? It depends on who you ask.
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
September 3, 2025
Three years after Space to Create opened in Ridgway, Ouray County’s affordable housing guinea pig is a bit of a mixed bag for residents and the public. The 30-unit apartment building on Clinton Street...
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