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Town toasts Space to Create construction
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Town toasts Space to Create construction
By Liz Teitz 
September 30, 2021
More than five years after the town of Ridgway was selected by the state for an affordable housing project, current and past town leaders and state officials gathered for a toast to celebrate long-awa...
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SILVERTON
By News Staff 
September 30, 2021
A Durango-based company called Farm to Table Composting presented a proposal to the town board of trustees for bringing their services to Silverton. They would come up once a week and collect compost ...
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CALENDAR & EVENTS
By News Staff 
September 30, 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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GUNNISON
By News Staff 
September 30, 2021
After weeks of meetings, public hearings and staff review, the Gunnison County commissioners voted unanimously on Tuesday to amend the land use resolution, changing the review and approval process for...
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Deed-restricted housing proceeds
By Liz Teitz 
September 30, 2021
The Ridgway Planning Commission voted Tuesday to approve a sketch plan for the Telluride Foundation’s proposal to build “Yellow Brick Lane,” a development of 14 deed-restricted homes. The decision cle...
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Ouray may grant exemption to planned rentals
By Mike Wiggins 
September 30, 2021
The Ouray City Council appears ready to process applications for short-term rental licenses from four property owners whose homes are still under construction, providing an exemption to a new set of p...
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Answers sought in accidents that killed four horses
By Erin McIntyre 
September 30, 2021
Investigators are continuing to look into a gruesome accident on U.S. Highway 550 that involved two separate vehicles and killed four horses last week. The first accident happened around 5 a.m., when ...
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Planning Commission ready to tackle master plan
By Carolina Brown 
September 30, 2021
The county's Planning Commission will focus on updating the master plan, originally written in the 1980s and not updated since 1999. Commissioners and members of the Planning Commission held a joint m...
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RISE AND SHINE
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RISE AND SHINE
By News Staff 
September 30, 2021
The San Juans are alive with fall colors, including this stretch along the Million Dollar Highway south of Ouray. This photo was taken on Sept. 27 by local photographer Mike Boruta. The area along Red...
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LAKE CITY
By News Staff 
September 30, 2021
Low stream flow in the Lake Fork River below Lake San Cristobal has prompted partial release of an in-stream water right from the lake, which is controlled by the Colorado Water Conservation Board. At...
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Horses killed in pickup, ambulance crashes on Highway 550
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Horses killed in pickup, ambulance crashes on Highway 550
By News Staff 
September 23, 2021
Four horses were killed in two separate accidents on Highway 550 this morning, near Cutler Creek just west of mile marker 99. The crash happened around 5 a.m. near the turnoff for the KOA, near the Ce...
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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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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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