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Stories of the year No. 8: Space to Create finally breaks ground
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Stories of the year No. 8: Space to Create finally breaks ground
By Liz Teitz 
December 24, 2021
More than five years after Ridgway was selected for an affordable housing project, ground broke on the Space to Create building this summer. When complete, there will be 30 apartments available to ren...
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CHECKING IT TWICE
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CHECKING IT TWICE
By News Staff 
December 23, 2021
Photo courtesy Lou Hart How does Santa determine who's been naughty and who's been nice this year? By reading the Plaindealer, of course! The jolly old elf caught up on local happenings outside the Ou...
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CALENDAR & EVENTS
By News Staff 
December 23, 2021
ART SHOW: Ouray County Community Art Show at the Ridgway Library during normal hours. Nov. 12 through Jan. 12. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Every Friday and Saturday morning at 9 a.m. and every Wednesday nig...
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Letters oppose domestic sheep grazing plan
By Carolina Brown 
December 23, 2021
Ouray County commissioners are urging federal officials to rethink a proposed grazing plan for domestic sheep that could affect wild sheep populations. Commissioners approved letters to the Bureau of ...
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Log Hill trailer fire a total loss
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Log Hill trailer fire a total loss
By Erin McIntyre 
December 23, 2021
A mobile home on County Road 22A burned Wednesday morning and is considered a total loss. No one was injured in the fire. The home was fully engulfed in flames when members of the Log Hill Volunteer F...
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State funding fuels housing proposals
By Liz Teitz 
December 23, 2021
A second Ridgway development project has received a Colorado Community Revitalization Grant from the state, while a major Ouray development has received a loan from the State Housing Board to purchase...
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Ouray to set another sales tax revenue record
By Mike Wiggins 
December 23, 2021
The city of Ouray will end 2021 hauling in a record amount of sales tax revenue for the second year in a row. The city this month raked in more than $246,000 in receipts from October sales, an 8% incr...
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County discusses goals, role of publicist
By Carolina Brown 
December 23, 2021
Nine months after hiring the county's first full-time public information officer, commissioners met with her to discuss the roles and responsibilities of the position. Jennifer Peterson was hired in M...
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The trouble with Mind Springs
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The trouble with Mind Springs
By Susan Greene 
December 23, 2021
Editor's note: The Ouray County Plaindealer is publishing this story about mental health issues as part of the Colorado News Collaborative, or COLab, the nonprofit that unites more than 160 communiti...
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Trailer burns on CR22A
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Trailer burns on CR22A
By News Staff 
December 22, 2021
A mobile home on County Road 22A burned this morning and is a total loss. The home was fully engulfed in flames when members of the Log Hill Volunteer Fire Department, the Montrose Fire Department, t...
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CALENDAR & EVENTS
By News Staff 
December 16, 2021
ART SHOW: Ouray County Community Art Show at the Ridgway Library during normal hours. Nov. 12 through Jan. 12. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Every Friday and Saturday morning at 9 a.m. and every Wednesday nig...
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Uptick in testing, cases likely to continue
Covid
Uptick in testing, cases likely to continue
By Erin McIntyre 
December 16, 2021
Ouray County is continuing to see an increase in demand for COVID testing and increased infection rates – with a 12.1% positivity rate as of Tuesday. The increased number of cases and need for testing...
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Ridgway man arrested in fatal crash
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Ridgway man arrested in fatal crash
By Erin Mcintyre And Liz Teitz 
December 16, 2021
A Ridgway man has been arrested in a case stemming from a fatal accident in September in Wyoming. Barrie Bloom, 68, was arrested at his home at 1030 Charles St., on a warrant from Rock Springs, for al...
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Public right-of-way on CR17 protected
By Carolina Brown 
December 16, 2021
Ouray County Attorney Leo Caselli and Commissioner Lynn Padgett successfully lobbied the State Board of Land Commissioners to formally recognize designated public rights-of-way on County Road 17 last ...
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POLICE LOG
By News Staff 
December 16, 2021
The following is a summary of cases the Ridgway Marshal's Office handled from Nov. 29-Dec. 12. If you have information on any of the below active cases or of any other incident that you have informati...
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Business owner fills Ouray School Board vacancy
By Carolina Brown 
December 16, 2021
The Ouray School Board has selected local business owner and Ouray graduate Tom Fedel to fill an open seat. The board met in a special meeting Dec. 9 to interview three candidates for the opening. Fed...
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AROUND THE REGION
By News Staff 
December 16, 2021
GUNNISON The Gunnison Watershed School District has released a plan to drop its mask mandate that could make indoor masks voluntary in early 2022, if conditions are met. Developed with Gunnison County...
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Sex assault trial continued
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Sex assault trial continued
By Erin McIntyre 
December 16, 2021
A trial for a local businessman accused of sexual assault has been postponed again, extending the three-year-old case into 2022. The latest delay came after new details surfaced in the case, which ste...
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State requires schools to raise taxes
By Liz Teitz 
December 16, 2021
Both Ouray County school districts will be required by the state to begin increasing their mill levies annually for the next nine years under a mandate to reverse previous mill levy reductions. Ouray ...
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A SLICK PARTNERSHIP
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A SLICK PARTNERSHIP
By Mike Wiggins 
December 16, 2021
Brian Briggs remembers the Ouray Silver Mines’ relationship with local ice climbing guides being as cold as the sheets of frozen water that beckoned to climbers up County Road 361. Mine employees and...
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After hiatus, a rally for high school baseball in Ridgway
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After hiatus, a rally for high school baseball in Ridgway
Sporting nearly 30-year-old jerseys, pilot junior varsity team takes field, aims for long-term viability through fundraising
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
April 15, 2026
Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect when Ridgway School District last had a baseball team, given updated information provided by Ouray County Baseball after the story was published. ...
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Zero-waste policy draws public fire
Council tables proposal for compostable, recyclable materials over concerns from business owners, community groups
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
April 15, 2026
Ridgway town councilors tabled a draft “zero-waste” policy for events on town property after public backlash about how the rules would impact business owners and community groups. The proposal discuss...
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Administrator sought info backing chief decision
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Administrator sought info backing chief decision
Records: Officers concerned about training
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
April 15, 2026
Ouray City Administrator Michelle Metteer sought input from neighboring law enforcement agencies about how they conduct background checks — after she decided not to hire Daric Harvey as the permanent ...
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Track and field returns to Grand Junction
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Track and field returns to Grand Junction
April 15, 2026
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County renews water lease for fourth year
By LIA SALVATIERRA 
April 15, 2026
Ouray County commissioners signed off on an agreement Tuesday to lease and help pay for backup water to support the county’s irrigators for a fourth year. The lease secures a 2021 no-call agreement be...
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