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Driver’s license changes enacted
By News Staff 
September 22, 2021
Older Coloradans can permanently renew their driver's licenses or identification cards online, now that a new state law has gone into effect. The new law also adjusts the process for renewing licenses...
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Space to Create receives $2 million grant
By News Staff 
September 22, 2021
The Town of Ridgway's housing project has received the first Community Revitalization Grant award this year from Colorado Creative Industries, securing its final round of funding for the project. The ...
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SMPA plans outages to upgrade system
By News Staff 
September 22, 2021
San Miguel Power Association has two upcoming power outages planned to upgrade its system and make improvements. The first of those outages will affect Ridgway customers, in an area centered in the do...
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County leaders seek more staffing, services
By Carolina Brown 
September 22, 2021
Ouray County coffers have grown in the last couple of years due to increased property and sales tax revenue, and that’s triggering requests for more staffing and services from county elected officials...
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Another Log Hill grow facility denied
By Carolina Brown 
September 22, 2021
Ouray County commissioners denied another Log Hill marijuana grow facility application on Tuesday, this one an appeal of staff’s denial. Land Use staff denied the application based on a moratorium on ...
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Nearly a third of homes vacant
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Nearly a third of homes vacant
By Liz Teitz 
September 22, 2021
Thirty percent of Ouray County’s housing stock is considered vacant, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, with more than 1,000 housing units reported as unoccupied, despite a housing sho...
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Mask rules change at Ouray School
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Mask rules change at Ouray School
By Liz Teitz 
September 22, 2021
Ouray School has revised its mask policy, allowing high school students to remove them while in classrooms due to higher vaccination rates. As of Friday, 83.3% of all high school students and 87% of s...
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‘Lucky enough to pull it off’
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‘Lucky enough to pull it off’
By Liz Teitz 
September 22, 2021
Editor's note:  This is the second profile in an occasional series highlighting those in Ouray County who are struggling to find housing, living in unusual situations or trying to solve the housing pr...
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AROUND THE REGION
By News Staff 
September 22, 2021
GUNNISON The first wave of renters is scheduled to move into the Paintbrush Apartments on Friday, a new affordable housing development in Gunnison. Although 76 new units are entering the market, the n...
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Meet the Ridgway School Board candidates
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Meet the Ridgway School Board candidates
By Plaindealer Staff Report 
September 22, 2021
Name: Tony Criscuolo Age: 77 Profession: Substitute teacher and yoga teacher Years in Ouray County: 3 Why are you interested in serving on the Ridgway School Board? The board can influence the educat...
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Ouray School relaxes high school mask rules
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Ouray School relaxes high school mask rules
By News Staff 
September 17, 2021
Ouray School has revised its mask policy, allowing high school students to remove them while in classrooms, due to higher vaccination rates.  As of Friday, 83.3% of all high school students and 87% of...
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Business owner, renter seeks to bring unique perspective to Ouray council
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Business owner, renter seeks to bring unique perspective to Ouray council
By Mike Wiggins 
September 15, 2021
When Heather Toth looks at the current Ouray City Council trying to untie the huge knot created by the city’s affordable and workforce housing crisis, she sees five people who own their homes, who hav...
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AROUND THE REGION
By News Staff 
September 15, 2021
GUNNISON It would lead to construction industry layoffs. It would put an undue burden on property owners. It would overwhelm county staff. It would infringe on constitutional property rights. It would...
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‘I’m back where I was when I was 5 years old’
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‘I’m back where I was when I was 5 years old’
By Liz Teitz 
September 15, 2021
As a kid growing up in Ouray, living in his parents’ trailer on Oak Street, David Huddleston never imagined that at 36, he’d still be living there. Buying a house in his hometown seemed out of reach, ...
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County taps new attorney
By Carolina Brown 
September 15, 2021
Ouray County commissioners formally hired a new county attorney Tuesday after a nearly nine-month search to find a full-time replacement for Carol Viner. Chairman Ben Tisdel read new County Attorney L...
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Biker dies on RAT trail
By Erin McIntyre 
September 15, 2021
A 72-year-old man died on the Ridgway Area Trails on Monday, after hitting a tree while riding his bike. Douglas Seitz, who lived part-time in Ridgway and permanently in Arizona, was found unresponsiv...
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College removes ‘whitewashed’ Indigenous displays
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College removes ‘whitewashed’ Indigenous displays
By Paolo Zialcita 
September 15, 2021
Paolo Zialcita Colorado Public Radio   The origin of Fort Lewis College in Durango is a dark stain on American education and the state of Colorado. The school’s own leaders have said as much. Once a p...
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Black Hills asks state for rate increase
By Plaindealer Staff Report 
September 15, 2021
Black Hills Energy is asking the state to allow it to increase rates for natural gas and electricity, to recover costs from Winter Storm Uri back in February. There are two separate requests before th...
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County denies Log Hill cultivation license
By Carolina Brown 
September 15, 2021
Ouray County commissioners denied an application for a marijuana cultivation facility on Log Hill Mesa on Tuesday. Commissioners voted unanimously to deny the application submitted by Canaboo Farms, L...
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Ridgway to consider ‘rights of nature’
By Erin McIntyre 
September 15, 2021
Ridgway may join a short list of municipalities that have recently adopted resolutions recognizing that nature has inherent legal rights. The council directed staff to draw up a resolution after Mayor...
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Ridgway girls run down state title
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Young team blows past competition to hoist Class 2A cross country trophy
By By Matt Meyer Special to the Plaindealer 
November 5, 2025
There isn’t a perfect translation for “hill” in Chinese. That's something Natasha Hessler discovered when she arrived at the famous creek crossing during the Colorado State Cross Country Championship ...
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Underwood elected mayor
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Underwood elected mayor
Hart joins council, which needs to fill two spots
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
November 5, 2025
Ouray City Councilor Michael Underwood won election to the mayor’s seat Tuesday night, succeeding on a campaign that emphasized fiscal conservatism and a vow to fix what he perceives as a disconnect b...
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Property tax hikes pass for cemetery, fire districts
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
November 5, 2025
Voters Tuesday night approved tax increases for the Cedar Hill Cemetery District and the Ouray Fire Protection District. A measure to increase the cemetery district’s mill levy from 0.33 mills to 1 mi...
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ELECTION 2025
Voters approve new county lodging tax
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
November 5, 2025
Voters in unincorporated Ouray County approved a new 6% lodging tax that is expected to provide more than $182,000 in additional funding during a tight 2026 budget year and into the future. The measur...
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Fagrelius, Meruelo win school board seats
By Erin McIntyre erin@ouraynews.com 
November 5, 2025
Ouray voters have chosen two former educators to join the Ouray School Board, according to unofficial results from Tuesday’s election. Three candidates competed for two open seats on the school board,...
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