I’ve found myself doing things I never because of this pandemic. At first it was mostly about isolation and sanitation. I washed everything to the point where my hands, left cracked and stinging, star...

Several weeks before the city of Ouray severed ties with its longtime marketing contractor, Mayor Greg Nelson asked professional photographer and social media manager Markus Van Meter to submit a prop...

Ouray County Commissioner John Peters has announced he is running for re-election this year with a goal of helping the county’s economy recover from the blow of recent closures. Peters said he thought...

Whatever the “real world” is, Ouray School’s Class of 2020 started blazing its own way into it on Sunday during graduation. The 13 members of the graduating class faced making their own way of celebr...

GUNNISON It’s still too early for Western Colorado University officials to determine the exact amount of financial loss caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, but leaders are making efforts to cushion some ...

The U.S. Forest Service plans to open Amphitheater, Angel Creek and Thistledown campgrounds in Ouray County on June 1, despite the fact that most Forest Service crews in the region will be operating w...

The Ridgway Visitor Center will remain closed for the rest of the year, with operators citing concerns about the health and •ƒˆ‡›‘ˆ‘Ž‡‡•™Š‘•ƒsafety of volunteers who staff the facility. The board of ...

Ridgway School administrators paid tribute during last week’s board meeting to Rick Taylor, a beloved volunteer who died earlier this month. Taylor volunteered at every level of the district and was a...

Colorado’s restaurants will be allowed to reopen at 50 percent capacity for in-person dining, with specific protocols, beginning this week This will be the first time they’ve been allowed to serve cus...

The City of Ouray has long been known as the Switzerland of America. This summer, thanks to recent action taken by the Ouray City Council and new state guidelines, its downtown business district may t...

A 61-year-old Ouray County woman who recovered from a suspected case of COVID-19 after having symptoms back in March is being counted as a “probable” case of coronavirus by the state. This makes the c...

Rowan Huffman finished up his last day of third grade at home on the morning of May 22, made a homemade sign out of cardboard from the packaging of his parent's new dining set and headed to Ridgway Fa...

Joshua Kinne, left, plays the guitar while his 9-year-old son, Samuel, plays the hand drums during an impromptu parade in Ridgway’s River Park subdivision on May 21. The neighborhood jam, organized by...

Ouray County will ask for permission to let restaurants resume in-person dining, and for locals to be exempt from a state 10-mile travel limit for recreation. The current state health orders prohibit ...

The Ouray School Board announced Tod Lokey, principal of Bayfield Middle School as their pick for superintendent/lead administrator at a meeting May 18. Lokey was one of two finalists after current Ri...

Houston massage therapist Ashley Sellers was looking for advice on where to stay in Ouray when she posted on social media May 4. “Sorry we are from Texas they opened almost everything here,” she wrot...

GUNNISON While rodeos throughout the western United States are calling this year a wash, Cattlemen’s Days organizers are fighting to hold the annual summer event. They met with Gunnison County Commiss...

The Ouray Visitors’ Center, closed since the end of March, will reopen with the help of volunteers on Friday. Markus Van Meter, whom the city hired earlier this month to perform digital marketing for ...

Local municipalities are troubleshooting how they can safely accommodate outdoor dining and allow restaurants to have more outside capacity, in anticipation of Ouray County’s variance to allow in-pers...

Visitors have been filtering back onto Ouray’s Main Street the last couple of weeks, since retail stores reopened and hotels and motels began taking reservations again. But it wasn’t until now that th...