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Trio of donors fuels school campaign
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Trio of donors fuels school campaign
By Mike Wiggins 
October 28, 2021
The committee advocating for the passage of a pair of funding measures for the Ridgway School District has pulled in more than $8,000 in cash contributions, fueled in large part by three significant d...
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Ballots due by 7 p.m. Tuesday
By News Staff 
October 28, 2021
Election Day is on Tuesday, and early ballot returns indicate 841 ballots had been turned in to the county elections office as of Wednesday morning, just over 18% of the total ballots mailed to regist...
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COVID surge taxes Montrose Memorial Hospital
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COVID surge taxes Montrose Memorial Hospital
By Liz Teitz 
October 21, 2021
Montrose Memorial Hospital is reporting a surge of COVID-19 cases and record patient numbers in the Emergency Department, forcing more patient transfers and longer wait times.  Instead of slowing down...
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CALENDAR & EVENTS
By News Staff 
October 21, 2021
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Every Friday and Saturday morning at 9 and every Tuesday and Wednesday night at 7 at St. Daniel’s Church, 614 Fifth St., Ouray. Every Thursday and Sunday at 7 p.m. in the sanctua...
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Ouray mayor, council candidates part ways on variety of issues at forum
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Ouray mayor, council candidates part ways on variety of issues at forum
By Mike Wiggins 
October 21, 2021
Ouray Mayor Greg Nelson and City Councilor Ethan Funk presented disparate visions in their respective bids for the mayor’s seat during an Oct. 14 candidate forum, parting ways on issues ranging from ...
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County plans mask discussion
By Liz Teitz 
October 21, 2021
Ouray County Public Health Director Tanner Kingery asked county commissioners Tuesday to schedule a conversation about a mask mandate, prompted by a recent increase in COVID-19 cases. He didn’t recomm...
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City: Commissioner illegally renting
By Liz Teitz And Mike Wiggins 
October 21, 2021
A San Juan County commissioner is among the six property owners Ouray city officials claim are illegally operating short-term rental units within the city, according to records obtained by the Plainde...
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Mayor only candidate to receive donations
By Mike Wiggins 
October 21, 2021
Ouray Mayor Greg Nelson is the only one of the six candidates for City Council who has received donations in the Nov. 2 race so far, and he and Tamara Gulde, running for a council seat, have spent the...
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Laura Street closure to last 3 months
By Erin McIntyre 
October 21, 2021
Half a block of North Laura Street will be closed for about three months to accommodate construction for the town of Ridgway’s Space to Create project. The closure is motivated by safety reasons, acco...
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‘Our way to create affordable housing’
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‘Our way to create affordable housing’
By Liz Teitz 
October 21, 2021
As soon as Dolgio Nergui and Dan Hughes started looking at houses in Ouray, the problem was clear: without another income source, it wasn’t going to be doable. “When you’re buying a house here, you’r...
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RUNNERS TAKE AIM AT STATE
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RUNNERS TAKE AIM AT STATE
By News Staff 
October 21, 2021
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Log Hill grow license renewed with expansion
By Carolina Brown 
October 21, 2021
After a four-hour hearing Tuesday, Ouray County commissioners unanimously approved the one-year renewal of a marijuana cultivation license for a controversial grow facility on Log Hill. MS Support wil...
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Business owner wants to diversify council
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Business owner wants to diversify council
By Erin McIntyre 
October 13, 2021
From the time Josh Smith was rewinding tapes at his parents' video rental store when he was 12 years old and getting an internship at an architecture firm in high school to owning his own businesses, ...
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CORRECTIONS
By News Staff 
October 13, 2021
A story on Page 1 in the Oct. 7-13 edition should have listed Ouray City Council candidate Heidi Forbes’s first name as Heidi, not Heather. A news brief on Page 22 in the Oct. 7-13 edition should have...
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Journalism fundraiser offers documentary screening
By Special To The Plaindealer 
October 13, 2021
The critical importance of an independent free press to a thriving democracy and the vital role played by small-town newspapers will be center stage at a special screening of an award-winning document...
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Ballot tracking available again
By Plaindealer Staff Report 
October 13, 2021
Colorado voters will be able to track their ballots online again for the 2021 general election on Nov. 2. The Secretary of State's elections office initiated the program last year and the technology a...
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Businessman seeks to problem-solve for city
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Businessman seeks to problem-solve for city
By Mike Wiggins 
October 13, 2021
When Ouray residents lamented the fact that there was no place to wash laundry in town following the closure of a laundromat years ago, Jason and Amber Perkins built a laundromat at Ouray RV Park & Ca...
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Ouray County health tax would be unique in state
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Ouray County health tax would be unique in state
By Liz Teitz 
October 13, 2021
      Ouray County voters will be asked next month to approve a 2 mill tax to support the Ouray County Public Health Agency, an unusual approach in the state for funding the department. The tax would ...
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Unhappy with current council, business owner seeks new direction for city
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Unhappy with current council, business owner seeks new direction for city
By Mike Wiggins 
October 13, 2021
Tamara Gulde insists she wasn't planning on running for council herself. She spent weeks this summer visiting with other residents, encouraging them to run for one of the two available positions. Peop...
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AROUND THE REGION
By News Staff 
October 13, 2021
GUNNISON The Western Power Area Administration, which provides 28% of Gunnison’s electricity, notified the city that they cannot meet the current demand for hydroelectric power due to low flows along ...
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Helping the helpers: The anatomy of a complex rescue
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Helping the helpers: The anatomy of a complex rescue
Volunteers saved an 11-year-old girl from the bottom of a cliff thanks largely to the skills of Mike Gibbs, who's made a career out of training rescuers
By By Nancy Lofholm Special to the Plaindealer 
February 18, 2026
It took Mike Gibbs all of five seconds on that morning in early August to figure out it was time to execute one of the world’s most complicated rope rescues. A car had tumbled 320 feet off the edge of...
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Bills to give reservoir to Ouray debut in Congress
Administrator: City can afford repair expenses, which are still unknown
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
February 18, 2026
U.S. House and Senate bills to transfer ownership of Crystal Reservoir from the U.S. Forest Service to the city of Ouray made it to subcommittee hearings in Washington, D.C. last week. Both bills are ...
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County spurns prairie dog control request
Commissioners say they're unwilling, unable to adopt restrictions; resident withdraws lawsuit threat
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
February 18, 2026
Ouray County leaders last week snuffed a resident’s request to require property owners to control prairie dogs, citing a legal inability and unwillingness to do so. At the start of a Feb. 11 work sess...
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Ridgway awards visitor services contract to chamber
February 18, 2026
Ridgway will hire the Ridgway Area Chamber of Commerce for $33,824 per year to support town marketing efforts. “RACC expressed confidence in its ability to execute the scope of work, based on many yea...
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Town approves measures to boost housing affordability
By Deb Hurley Brobst Special to the Plaindealer 
February 18, 2026
The Ridgway Town Council approved three measures at its meeting on Feb. 11 to boost affordable housing in the town. Ridgway applying for ADU grant Ridgway is applying for a grant that will allow it to...
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