One by one, masked congregants walked up to a small altar at the United Church of the San Juans, weaving carefully between sets of chairs arranged 6 feet apart. They each selected a plate holding a Co...

Editor's Note: To watch a video about the Ouray and Ridgway protests, click here.   For the second time in as many weeks, locals gathered to join national calls for police reform and justice for Geor...

Ted Wolfe and Justin Perry, the candidates seeking to replace Ouray County Sheriff Lance FitzGerald in a June 3o recall election, offered differing answers to questions posed during a June 11 forum. H...

Editor’s note: The Plaindealer asked several questions of the two candidates running for sheriff in the June 30 recall election: Republican Ted Wolfe and unaffiliated Justin Perry. Their responses wer...

A 50-year-old woman who lives in Ouray County and works in a neighboring county is the latest confirmed local case of COVID-19. Ouray County Public Health Department Director Tanner Kingery said he re...

Ouray County’s 4-H Events Center will reopen for church services after being closed for months due to COVID-19 restrictions. Grace Community Church will be the first group to hold events at the facili...

The city of Ouray plans to reopen the Hot Springs Pool and fitness center early next week, more than three months after the facilities were shut down in the early stages of the COVID-i9 pandemic. Acti...

By Robert Stoufer Editor's Note: This column was printed in this week's edition of the Plaindealer as part of a special section from the Ouray County Historical Society. Please pick up a copy to read...

By P. Balaram Editor's Note: This article was printed as part of a special section for the Ouray County Historical Society in the Plaindealer this week. Please pick up a copy of the paper to read more...

The Ouray County Fair isn’t canceled – but it’s definitely going to look different this year due to COVID-19. There won’t be any indoor exhibits, no pie-baking contest, no jellies and jams awarded rib...

Editor's note: This article was published as part of a special section for the Ouray County Historical Society in this week's edition of the Plaindealer. Please pick up a copy to learn more about how ...

By Don Paulson Editor's note: This column was printed in the Plaindealer as part of a special section for the Ouray County Historical Society. Please pick up a copy of this week's paper to learn more ...

A story printed in the June 4 edition of the Plaindealer on Ouray County commissioner candidates should have clarified that Steven Hilbert of Ridgway is running for commissioner here, not Steven A. Hi...

Phase one of the project to bring fiber optic cable from Montrose over Log Hill and into Ouray for a total of about 48 miles of new broadband is nearing completion - but a shipping delay has held up t...

Peggy Lindsey was surprised when she received two bills for remodeling work on her condo this spring. It wasn’t the amount that caught the Ouray resident’s attention — $2,500 — but what the handyman w...

Ouray County commissioners will decide next week when — and how — the 4-H Events Center will reopen, and will likely also consider a variance request for larger capacities to be allowed at pools. Even...

Ballots for the primary election and the sheriff recall election here in Ouray County are being mailed to registered voters this week. Voters here in Ouray County will receive two separate ballots — a...

Editor’s note: The Plaindealer asked several questions of the two candidates running for sheriff in the June 30 recall election: Republican Ted Wolfe and unaffiliated Justin Perry. Their responses wer...

Budget cuts to Ridgway School District from the state resulting from the COVID-19 induced economic downturn will not be as deep as the school board first feared. However, the district will still have ...

Justin Perry sits alone at a picnic table, scrolling through his phone, mask around his neck. Campaign literature and yard signs are spread out next to him, untouched. On this mild spring day, when n...