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Outcry delays highway closures
By Mike Wiggins 
July 21, 2021
San Miguel Power Association pulled back plans to close U.S. Highway 550 over Red Mountain Pass for several hours at a time starting this week after surprised elected officials in Ouray and Silverton ...
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City, county grapple with rental issues
By Liz Teitz 
July 21, 2021
Ouray County will bid out short-term rental monitoring, in an effort to crack down on rentals operating illegally without permits, while the City of Ouray is still debating whether to cap rentals or p...
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PEAK PERFORMANCE
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PEAK PERFORMANCE
By News Staff 
July 21, 2021
Yankee Boy Basin’s wildflowers are hitting their peak after a dry spell and some nourishing rains. In the foreground of this photo on the left, the flower stalk is Green Gentian, also called monument ...
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Local woman in her 80s dies with COVID
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Local woman in her 80s dies with COVID
By News Staff 
July 19, 2021
A woman in her 80s who tested positive for COVID-19 a day before she died is the county's fourth fatality connected with the virus. She had been fully vaccinated with the Moderna vaccine in February, ...
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Utility company postpones planned closures of Red Mountain Pass
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Utility company postpones planned closures of Red Mountain Pass
By Mike Wiggins 
July 18, 2021
The San Miguel Power Association has postponed plans to intermittently close U.S. Highway 550 over Red Mountain Pass for electrical utility work after Ouray and San Juan County officials strenuously o...
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Accessory unit regs in focus
By Mike Wiggins 
July 15, 2021
Ouray city officials are inching closer to enacting a series of land-use code changes aimed at creating more workforce housing, though a number of important details must still be hashed out. Ouray cit...
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County: Forest plan has ‘fatal flaws’
By Carolina Brown 
July 15, 2021
Ouray County commissioners held the third of a series of work sessions on Wednesday to develop comments on a draft plan for the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests. Commissioners Ben...
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Man arrested, accused of sending nude photos to women
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Man arrested, accused of sending nude photos to women
By Erin McIntyre 
July 15, 2021
A man accused of sending nude photos to women and allegedly harassing them with messages on social media has been arrested. Neill Chismire, 31, was arrested on a warrant for alleged indecent exposure ...
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County can’t keep up with rentals
By Liz Teitz 
July 15, 2021
As the city of Ouray works to crack down on illegal short-term rentals, Ouray County is considering ways to improve its own enforcement, potentially by outsourcing that work. The county allows 100 act...
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MUSIC TO OUR EARS
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MUSIC TO OUR EARS
By News Staff 
July 15, 2021
Reggae band Mike Love & The Full Circle play a set during the July 8 Ridgway Concert Series at Hartwell Park. The series features free music every Thursday in July at the park starting at 6 p.m., with...
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AROUND THE REGION
By News Staff 
July 15, 2021
GUNNISON Gunnison Valley Health employees may soon do office work where shoppers recently sought bargains. Gunnison County commissioners on Tuesday approved the purchase of the Dollar Tree building on...
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A busy day, a big tip
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A busy day, a big tip
By Mike Wiggins 
July 15, 2021
Stephanie Kissner’s heart sank just a little when the woman waved her down. It was near the end of another busy Sunday at Ridgway’s True Grit Cafe in the midst of a draining summer for Ouray County’s ...
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Medical closet needs more space
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Medical closet needs more space
By Liz Teitz 
July 15, 2021
The crutches are closest to the door, leaning against one wall. Some look nearly new; others have pilled and frayed padding, peeling away from years of use. Behind them, canes hang from the rungs of a...
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Ouray mayor to face competition this fall
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Ouray mayor to face competition this fall
By Erin McIntyre 
July 15, 2021
The last time Ethan Funk ran for office, he was in elementary school, and he ran for student council. The challenger in Ouray’s mayoral race isn’t one for the spotlight, or politics, particularly. But...
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Nelson seeks re-election, proud of accomplishments
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Nelson seeks re-election, proud of accomplishments
By Mike Wiggins 
July 15, 2021
When Greg Nelson ran for Ouray mayor two years ago, he did so on a platform of change, of devising solutions to long-standing problems, of addressing issues he felt had been left to languish for too l...
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Board OKs new Ridgway development
By Liz Teitz 
July 15, 2021
Ridgway’s Planning Commission voted on Tuesday to recommend the Town Council approve a preliminary plat application for a new development along the Uncompahgre River that could house more than 130 res...
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Covid
Little known about CDC probe in Mesa County
By Meg Wingerter 
July 15, 2021
A visit from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to Mesa County in late June hasn't yet yielded answers about why so many people in nursing homes recently got COVID-19, but it may have cont...
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Crews responding to lightning-strike fire above Ouray
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Crews responding to lightning-strike fire above Ouray
By News Staff 
July 13, 2021
UPDATE, 4 p.m. Wednesday The lightning-sparked fire on Twin Peaks Mountain has been named the Twin Sisters Fire, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The fire remains small and is smoldering, accordi...
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Ridgway man arrested for alleged indecent exposure, harassment
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Ridgway man arrested for alleged indecent exposure, harassment
By News Staff 
July 8, 2021
A man accused of sending nude photos to women and allegedly harassing them with messages on social media has been arrested. Neill Chismire, 31, was arrested on a warrant for alleged indecent exposure ...
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Covid
Vaccinations urged as variants spread
By Liz Teitz 
July 7, 2021
While Colorado met President Joe Biden’s goal of administering at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot to 70 percent of adults by July 4, most counties haven’t yet, including Ouray County. Local infections...
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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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