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AROUND THE REGION
By News Staff 
August 12, 2020
GUNNISON Gunnison County health officials will be meeting with state officials later this week to discuss the rising cases of COVID-19 1ocally. The county's current caseload has alarmed officials at t...
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Plans for Corbett Creek in the works
By Carolina Brown 
August 12, 2020
Ouray County commissioners and staff spent four hours on Tuesday in a virtual meeting with the Army Corps of Engineers to discuss possible solutions to recurring flooding of Corbett Creek on County Ro...
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Councilors hone flume-tax ballot language
By Mike Wiggins 
August 12, 2020
Ouray city officials are inching closer to asking voters in November to extend a property tax that pays for projects designed to protect homes and businesses from flood damage. While they didn’t take ...
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Hardrockers Holidays rock on despite pandemic
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Hardrockers Holidays rock on despite pandemic
By Liz Teitz 
August 12, 2020
SILVERTON — Judy Kuhlman adjusted her blue surgical mask and pink gloves before settling herself on the long, wooden platform, resting the heels of her boots against the ridges in preparation for anot...
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Padgett joins commissioner race
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Padgett joins commissioner race
By News Staff 
August 10, 2020
Lynn Padgett would have loved to continue her tenure as a county commissioner at the end of her second term, back in 2016. Term limits prevented her from doing that, but she might have a chance to do ...
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Ouray County Rodeo canceled
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Ouray County Rodeo canceled
By Liz Teitz 
August 7, 2020
The Ouray County Rodeo Association has canceled this year’s rodeo, citing unsustainable costs if attendance is limited due to COVID-19. “The board has basically decided that with the number of people ...
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State grants pool variance for Ouray County
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State grants pool variance for Ouray County
By News Staff 
August 6, 2020
The state has granted a variance to Ouray County for increased capacity at both indoor and outdoor pools. The approval came on Wednesday night in an email to Health Department Director Tanner Kingery,...
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EPA: Atlas Mill project a temporary fix
By Carolina Brown 
August 5, 2020
An on-scene coordinator with the Environmental Protection Agency has voiced concerns about how effective efforts at the old Atlas Mill site will be in the longterm at keeping mine tailings runoff out ...
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NEWS BRIEFS
By News Staff 
August 5, 2020
Visitor tested positive for virus A woman visiting from Texas back in July is the latest person confirmed to have had coronavirus with a test performed here in Ouray County. Though her positive test w...
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Padgett joins commissioner race
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Padgett joins commissioner race
By News Staff 
August 5, 2020
Lynn Padgett would have loved to continue her tenure as a county commissioner at the end of her second term, back in 2016. Term limits prevented her from doing that, but she might have a chance to do ...
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Boebert fires up Ouray County crowd
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Boebert fires up Ouray County crowd
By Mike Wiggins 
August 5, 2020
Tammee Tuttle ate several years ago at Shooters Grill, the Rifle restaurant made nationally famous for its armed wait staff. But it wasn’t until last weekend that Tuttle, the owner of True Grit Cafe ...
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AROUND THE REGION
By News Staff 
August 5, 2020
GUNNISON This isn’t the first pandemic Cattlemen’s Days organizers in Gunnison have faced. And they’re determined not to let this one bring a halt to the annual celebration of cowboys and the western ...
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Ouray in search of infrastructure funds
By Mike Wiggins 
August 5, 2020
An idea to charge an additional tax to help pay for a new wastewater treatment plant turned into a discussion during Monday night’s Ouray City Council meeting about how the city can generate more reve...
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Schools’ teachable moment
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Schools’ teachable moment
By Liz Teitz 
August 5, 2020
Before starting math class last week, six Ridgway middle-schoolers carefully chose their spots in the shady space outside the school building, clipboards and pencils in hand. Each wore a mask as they...
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Visitors flock to outdoors during pandemic
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Visitors flock to outdoors during pandemic
By Liz Teitz 
August 5, 2020
Campgrounds are full, Jeeps and paddleboards are in short supply, and local outdoor recreation businesses are seeing more customers than past years, as people opt for trips to less populated areas wit...
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Man arrested after fight on pass
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Man arrested after fight on pass
By Erin McIntyre 
August 5, 2020
A dispute over who had the right-of-way on a local Jeep trail led to an arrest for alleged assault last week. Congested routes and lack of following trail etiquette led to the incident. On Saturday, a...
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Visitor tested positive for COVID-19 in Ouray County
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Visitor tested positive for COVID-19 in Ouray County
By News Staff 
August 5, 2020
A woman visiting from Texas back in July is the latest person confirmed to have had coronavirus with a test performed here in Ouray County. Though her positive test won't officially count as a Ouray C...
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Marijuana facility complaints continue
By Carolina Brown 
July 29, 2020
Ouray County commissioners fielded more complaints Tuesday about an oft-criticized marijuana grow facility on Log Hill Mesa, while also hearing concerns about a proposed retail marijuana store in Colo...
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AROUND THE REGION
By News Staff 
July 29, 2020
GUNNISON A Gunnison County Sheriff’s deputy has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation into his social media account. However in the initial hours of the inve...
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Sewage lawsuit may go to trial
By Mike Wiggins 
July 29, 2020
A trial is scheduled for next year to determine whether the city of Ouray and a contractor are liable for the damage caused when raw sewage from a municipal sewer line backed up into the Timber last y...
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Bright start, cloudy future for bus service
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Bright start, cloudy future for bus service
Two years after launch, OurWay ridership has doubled. It’s unclear if grant money and matching local funds will help it keep running
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
February 25, 2026
Georgia Evans greeted the bus driver with jugs of milk and water in her hands and boarded the 11-seater OurWay shuttle, headed home from work in Ridgway to Montrose. She noticed it was a different bus...
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Backcountry road closure eyed
County to shut off portion of Yankee Boy Basin to vehicles this summer due to environmental damage
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
February 25, 2026
Ouray County commissioners on Tuesday directed staff to pursue closing an upper section of Yankee Boy Basin this summer to motorized traffic, in response to a resident’s request to reduce environmenta...
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Councilor seeks relaxed in-person attendance policy
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Councilor seeks relaxed in-person attendance policy
Doherty claims job keeps him out of town; council to decide whether to change cap on remote participation
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
February 25, 2026
A newly appointed Ouray city councilor who has attended just half of the city council’s meetings in person so far this year has asked the council to relax an attendance policy and allow him to govern ...
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Go-away-finding: Ouray to nix project, remove signs
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Go-away-finding: Ouray to nix project, remove signs
After spending more than $100K on branding, design and fabrication, council halts wayfinding initiative that could have cost up to $800K
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
February 25, 2026
Large maroon wayfinding signs installed on Main Street in Ouray last summer, triggering protests from residents and business owners detesting their appearance and size, will soon be gone like they wer...
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Wet snow, later sunsets mark spring’s approach
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Wet snow, later sunsets mark spring’s approach
By Karen Risch 
February 25, 2026
Thanks to warming sun, wet snow showers, spells of shirtsleeve weather, earlier sunrises and later sunsets, meteorological spring (March 1) is upon us. It’s been an a-ha moment these last two weeks as...
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