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AROUND THE REGION
By News Staff 
December 3, 2020
GUNNISON Winter trailheads get busier each year. COVID led to a surge in backcountry use. Both of these notions are wrong, according to a study presented last week by Western Colorado University. Sinc...
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School board: Time to move on from playground landscaping dispute
By Carolina Brown 
November 25, 2020
The Ouray School Board will not offer another settlement to a landscaper who claims she wasn’t fairly compensated for work on the new playground last year. Former Ridgway resident Susan Maybach, who o...
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Agencies mull parking problems on Red Mountain
By Carolina Brown 
November 25, 2020
Ouray County is concerned about parking congestion on Red Mountain Pass, anticipating an even bigger demand from backcountry users this winter. Visitors flooded high country roads over the summer duri...
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Covid
Community pleased with in-person learning
By Carolina Brown 
November 25, 2020
Ridgway parents, staff, and – to a lesser extent – students are satisfied with this year’s in-person learning and the health and safety protocols the district has implemented, but there is less confid...
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County considers control of Colona alleys, streets
By Carolina Brown 
November 25, 2020
Colona property owner Craig Jackman wants the county to relinquish control of certain streets and alleys in the unincorporated town. The Board of County Commissioners will meet in an executive session...
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AROUND THE REGION
By News Staff 
November 25, 2020
GUNNISON A construction site slipup in the National Park Service’s Cimarron Campground severed Gunnison and Hinsdale counties’ only telecommunications connection for internet, phone and 911 on Nov. 12...
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Covid
Testing expands in region
By Liz Teitz 
November 25, 2020
Ouray County Public Health has expanded eligibility for COVID-19 testing, citing increased availability of tests for people without symptoms as case numbers in the county have surged. “We’re trying to...
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Covid
County reports third workplace outbreak
By News Staff 
November 25, 2020
Two City of Ouray employees have tested positive for COVID-l9, marking the third workplace outbreak in the county this month. A woman in her 3os and a man in his 4os tested positive for the virus last...
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The winter of arts’ discontent
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The winter of arts’ discontent
By Mike Wiggins 
November 25, 2020
The tiny ballerinas, dressed in their wings and halos, should be in the midst of rehearsals in Ridgway for The Nutcracker, the popular annual holiday production that always packs the Montrose Pavilio...
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Outbreak confirmed in City of Ouray offices
Covid
Outbreak confirmed in City of Ouray offices
By News Staff 
November 20, 2020
The suspected outbreak among employees for the City of Ouray is now a confirmed outbreak, according to positive test results released by the health department this morning. Two city employees have tes...
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Ridgway seeks to fill council vacancy
By Erin McIntyre 
November 19, 2020
The Ridgway Town Council is accepting applications for an opening on the board, vacated by Councilor Tessa Cheek, who resigned her position as of Nov. 30. Cheek said she’s reluctantly leaving the boar...
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Operation Christmas Child deadline this week
By News Staff 
November 19, 2020
Ridgway Community Church is gathering donations for Operation Christmas Child, with a goal of donating supplies to children around the world. This is national collection week for the donations, distri...
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Covid
Pandemic forces shift of holiday plans
By Liz Teitz 
November 19, 2020
For five years, Carolyn Snowbarger watched as her Thanksgiving dinner grew, adding more chairs around the table. Last year, 37 people gathered at her Ridgway home, where they sat at tables she borrowe...
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Covid
Plea to public: Slow virus spread
By Mike Wiggins And Erin Mcintyre 
November 19, 2020
With Ouray County in the middle of its biggest spike in COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began eight months ago, elected officials in Ouray County are joining forces to ask the public to slow virus s...
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AROUND THE REGION
By News Staff 
November 19, 2020
GUNNISON After warning students and staff that a COVID-19 outbreak could shut down the campus, Western Colorado University administrators ended in-person classes Monday with more students testing posi...
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THE BUCK STOPS HERE
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THE BUCK STOPS HERE
By News Staff 
November 19, 2020
A mule deer seems content to take in the sights near home plate at Smokey Joe Wood baseball field at Fellin Park in Ouray earlier this month. Deer frequently populate the park, mostly ignoring walkers...
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Developers pitch workforce housing for miners
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Developers pitch workforce housing for miners
By Mike Wiggins 
November 19, 2020
Two Ouray businessmen are proposing to build an apartment complex in town to house Ouray Silver Mines employees, a project they say would help meet the needs of the mine as it readies for production ...
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Trail completed ahead of schedule
By Carolina Brown 
November 19, 2020
A parallel trail along County Road 5 approved less then two months ago as part of a settlement agreement with property owners is days from completion, Ouray County Commissioner John Peters told the re...
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Covid
Ridgway rides out quarantine
By Liz Teitz 
November 19, 2020
Shawnn Row waited by his computer Tuesday morning, a Zoom window open and ready for students to pop in with questions. Instead of walking up to his desk or raising their hands, they would click to a l...
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Christmas tree permits available now
By News Staff 
November 19, 2020
Christmas tree permits are now available for purchase at Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests office locations, as well as at the Bureau of Land Management’s Uncompahgre Field Office ...
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Ridgway to grow capacity to fight wildland fires
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Ridgway to grow capacity to fight wildland fires
Additional staff, engine can enhance skills, create more revenue
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
December 3, 2025
Ridgway’s wildland firefighters have mopped up hotspots in Nevada, fought wildfire on the front lines in California and protected structures at home in Colorado. Since the Ridgway Fire Protection Dist...
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County chops event center operations to aid budget
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
December 3, 2025
Ouray County is performing triage on its 2026 budget as 2025 revenues are coming in lower than expected, placing even more pressure on the county’s general fund savings. County leaders have been worki...
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New council’s first task: Fill vacancies
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New council’s first task: Fill vacancies
After soliciting applications, councilors to interview, pick appointments Jan. 5
December 3, 2025
Ouray city leaders swore in a new mayor and city councilor Monday night, then turned their attention to the council’s most pressing issue: Finding and appointing two more councilors to fill out the ra...
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Slow start to snow season
Wave of storms helps, but snowpack in San Juans well below normal
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
December 3, 2025
A series of post-Thanksgiving storms delivered desperately needed snow to the moisture-starved San Juans, but snowpack at the start of December remains well below average in Ouray County and the surro...
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SEASON OF SHARING
Ridgway Ouray Community Council
December 3, 2025
Editor's note: The Ouray County Plaindealer is continuing its tradition of featuring nonprofit organizations based in Ouray County, serving Ouray County in a series of profiles called Season of Sharin...
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