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Voters to decide on roads measure
By Erin McIntyre 
October 30, 2019
  Ouray County voters will decide next week whether to fund roads maintenance and a plan to improve routes across the county for the coming decades. The countywide ballot measure, which asks voters to...
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Town manager candidates to visit
By Erin McIntyre 
October 30, 2019
  Four finalists for the Ridgway town administrator position will visit next week, and members of the public are invited to meet them. The finalists are: • Dan Chandler, the current assistant county a...
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Mayoral hopefuls dominate spending
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
CITY OF OURAY Ouray mayoral candidate Greg Nelson is the only one of the seven candidates for City Council who has received donations thus far, and he and fellow mayoral candidate and current Mayor Pr...
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CORRECTION
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
In a profile of Ridgway School Board candidate John Countryman published in the Oct. 17 edition of the Plaindealer, a formatting error resulted in the number of years he’s resided in Ouray County bein...
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Meet the school board candidates
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Meet the school board candidates
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
OURAY SCHOOLS Editor's note: The Plaindealer invited candidates for the local school board races to introduce themselves. In the Oct. 17 edition we featured Ridgway School Board candidates. This week...
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A WELCOME HONOR
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A WELCOME HONOR
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
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New ice park fees OK’d
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
CITY OF OURAY A change in the fee structure for professional climbing guides is intended to generate more revenue to manage the Ouray Ice Park. The Ouray City Council unanimously agreed Monday to a pr...
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WESTERN SLOPE NEWS BRIEFS
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
SILVERTON - Town and county officials are expressing concern that state officials are reluctant to take the lead role in managing the Bonita Peak Mining District Super-fund Site, despite "good-faith a...
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Panel OKs 911 surcharge hike
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
OURAY COUNTY The Colorado Public Utilities Commission has approved a request from the Ouray Emergency Telephone Service Authority to increase monthly 911 surcharges from 70 cents to $1.25. The Ouray a...
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Blaze challenges firefighters
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Blaze challenges firefighters
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
OURAY COUNTY Concerned community members attended a meeting with fire officials Tuesday night who updated them on the Cow Creek Fire, estimated to have grown to 853 acres as of Wednesday morning. The...
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Efforts underway to preserve Idarado Houses
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Efforts underway to preserve Idarado Houses
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
OURAY COUNTY Hopes are high that the historic Idarado Houses located in a switchback on Highway 550 near Red Mountain Pass may soon be preserved. Pat Willits of the Trust for Land Restoration has long...
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Halloween haunts in Ouray and Ridgway
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Halloween haunts in Ouray and Ridgway
By Carolina Brown 
October 23, 2019
  Exciting events are scheduled around the county this Halloween season. In Ouray, celebrations will supplement the annual trick-or-treating down Main Street. Scary thrills for kids and adults alike w...
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Southwest Colorado back in drought’s grip
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
WESTERN COLORADO The scene was stark for its incongruity: billows of smoke rising in front of the jagged Cimarrons coated with fresh snow. Perhaps the most noteworthy thing about Ouray County's first ...
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‘Gathering of the Flock’ an epic event for rail fans
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‘Gathering of the Flock’ an epic event for rail fans
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
OURAY COUNTY More than 1,000 railfans from across the nation and Europe visited Ridgway on Oct. 12 and 13 to ride and learn about five historically significant railroad motor cars, commonly referred t...
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Former undersheriff scheduled for trial
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Former undersheriff scheduled for trial
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
OURAY COUNTY Former Ouray County Undersheriff Richard Herman has pleaded not guilty to charges alleging he solicited sex from a teenage boy and is scheduled for a three-day jury trial in April. Herman...
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Board meets with ‘Teacher Council’
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
OURAY SCHOOLS A more than hour-long special session of the Ouray School Board with a “Teacher Council,” held Oct. 16 off campus, was attended by 21 people, mostly Ouray School teachers and three board...
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Candidates share top donors in race
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
RIDGWAY SCHOOLS Two of the candidates in Ridgway’s contested race for school board have raised campaign contributions outside their own personal spending and share top donors. This is the first school...
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Elks Lodge seeks scholarship applicants
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
OURAY COUNTY Over the last 85 years, the Elks National Foundation has awarded thousands of college scholarships worth tens of millions of dollars to high school seniors, an effort that encompasses loc...
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Town adopts new water rates, after much debate
By Erin McIntyre 
October 16, 2019
  After months of debate Ridgway’s town council unanimously adopted a new water rate structure, raising the minimum cost of water for residential customers and adjusting the points at which overage ch...
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WESTERN SLOPE NEWS BRIEFS
By News Staff 
October 16, 2019
SILVERTON - Three people were injured in a off-highway vehicle accident on Stony Pass on Sept. 26, according to the San Juan County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff Bruce Conrad said there were actually two ...
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Smoke blankets Ouray County as wildfires burn in region
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Smoke blankets Ouray County as wildfires burn in region
By Mike Wiggins 
July 11, 2025
Heavy smoke and haze choked Ouray County for a second straight day Friday as a series of wildfires churned through tinder-dry trees and brush in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah. The Colora...
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Signs of trouble in Ouray
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Signs of trouble in Ouray
City halts production after public backlash over size, appearance of wayfinding signs
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
July 9, 2025
Ouray business owners and residents threw up a symbolic stop sign in front of the city council on Monday, urging city leaders to pause or altogether abandon plans to install dozens of new wayfinding s...
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Go Fourth and celebrate
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Go Fourth and celebrate
July 9, 2025
The crowd cheers as a fire department tanker truck sprays the wet side of the street during the July 4 parade in Ouray. Ouray Tourism and Destination Marketing Director Kailey Rhoten said cellular dat...
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County scrambles to pay for road repairs from rockfall
Leaders pull from multiple sources to cover $300,000 tab, look to replenish emergency fund
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
July 9, 2025
Ouray County is scraping together money to pay for emergency repairs on County Road 361 while looking for ways to replenish its emergency fund in anticipation of other disasters. During a work session...
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Hot Springs moves forward with upgrades
Council OKs bathhouse design contract; pipeline replacement, heat exchange system on tap this fall
By By Lia Salvatierra and Mike Wiggins lia@ouraynews.com mike@ouraynews.com 
July 9, 2025
A series of much-anticipated upgrades to the Ouray Hot Springs Pool is coming together, with the city beginning infrastructure replacements this fall and searching for ways to pay for building a new b...
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