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Sheriff recall moves forward with bipartisan support
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Sheriff recall moves forward with bipartisan support
By Erin McIntyre 
February 6, 2020
Ninety petitions to gather signatures to hold Ouray County’s first recall election are circulating, with bipartisan volunteers pushing to collect double the signatures needed to ask voters whether the...
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Survey respondents OK with buildings
By Carolina Brown 
February 6, 2020
Students, parents and community members of Ridgway School District are overall pretty happy with school infrastructure and believe both buildings meet the needs of students in all areas proposed in a ...
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Grow facility given extension
By Carolina Brown 
February 6, 2020
A local marijuana grow facility has received another extension to address complaints from neighbors, the latest in a series of issues holding over from last year. Daniel Castillo of MS Support, a mari...
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City in holding pattern on sewer
By Mike Wiggins 
February 6, 2020
The Ouray City Council tabled a decision Monday on whether to explore rehabilitating its current sewer lagoons rather than building a new mechanical treatment plant while it waits to find out the envi...
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Idarado houses closer to restoration
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Idarado houses closer to restoration
By Carolina Brown 
February 6, 2020
In an effort to preserve historical structures from the Idarado Mine, Ouray County commissioners agreed Tuesday to accept a donation from Newmont Mining Corp. of two of the four Idarado houses located...
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NEWS BRIEFS
By News Staff 
February 3, 2020
Local wedding planner honored with award A Ouray event and wedding planner has received an award from The Knot, earned from high ratings and recommendations from those who have used her services and a...
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Rep. McLachlan’s bills focused on education
By Mike Wiggins 
January 30, 2020
It should perhaps come as no surprise that, as a retired high school teacher, state Rep. Barbara McLachlan is focused primarily on education issues this legislative session. The package of bills intro...
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Avalanche report: Climber buried by ice
By Erin McIntyre 
January 29, 2020
The group of ice climbers involved in a fatal avalanche that killed a Seattle woman earlier this month tried to dig her out from under a rubble pile of ice with their bare hands before rescuers arrive...
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Legislator’s bills focused on education
By Mike Wiggins 
January 29, 2020
It should perhaps come as no surprise that, as a retired high school teacher, state Rep. Barbara McLachlan is focused primarily on education issues this legislative session. The package of bills intro...
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City to begin enforcing vacation rental regs
By Mike Wiggins 
January 29, 2020
Time is running out for owners of short-term rentals to obtain a license from the city of Ouray. City officials will begin conducting code enforcement on properties leased for fewer than 30 days start...
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NEWS BRIEFS
By News Staff 
January 29, 2020
Local wedding planner honored with award A Ouray event and wedding planner has received an award from The Knot, earned from high ratings and recommendations from those who have used her services and a...
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Petition to recall sheriff OK’d
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Petition to recall sheriff OK’d
By Erin McIntyre 
January 29, 2020
A recall petition to remove Ouray County Sheriff Lance FitzGerald from office has been approved. Petition circulators now have 60 days to gather signatures to move forward with an election where count...
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Panel: Climate change a threat to ice climbing
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Panel: Climate change a threat to ice climbing
By Mike Wiggins 
January 29, 2020
A warming climate will shorten the ice climbing season in Ouray County and is already shrinking or eliminating climbing routes around the world, a panel of climbers and weather experts said Sunday nig...
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Staff to sheriff: Save face, resign
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Staff to sheriff: Save face, resign
By Erin McIntyre 
January 29, 2020
The voices asking Ouray County Sheriff Lance FitzGerald to resign now include his own staff. A Jan. 21 letter from a staff member to FitzGerald expressed embarrassment, disgust and a request for him t...
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Faster internet coming to county on schedule
By Carolina Brown 
January 29, 2020
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 now 32 percent complete. Doug Seacat, owner of Deeply D...
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Hang in there
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Hang in there
By News Staff 
January 29, 2020
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Sheep grazing plan open for final review
By Erin McIntyre 
January 29, 2020
The Bureau of Land Management is in the final stages of an Environmental Impact Statement to assess domestic sheep grazing on nine grazing allotments in Ouray, Hinsdale and Gunnison counties. The allo...
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Board OKs resolution on staff retention
By Carolina Brown 
January 29, 2020
An unusually large crowd of teachers and community members gathered for a meeting of the Ridgway School Board on Jan. 23 to give public input on school funding and hear the board approve a resolution ...
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City OKs Columbus improvements
By Mike Wiggins 
January 22, 2020
The Ouray City Council on Tuesday signed off on a plan to expand the historic Columbus Building, with a series of changes the owner says is necessary to cover soaring restoration costs. Councilors una...
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AROUND THE REGION
By News Staff 
January 22, 2020
GUNNISON Hundreds of Gunnison County residents were summoned for jury selection this week in the trial of a woman accused in the 2017 deaths of two young sisters. Madani Ceus was originally charged in...
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Community paramedicine brings vital care to mountain, rural places
By Deb Hurley Brobst Special to the Plaindealer 
November 19, 2025
Editor’s note: There’s a proposal to start a community paramedicine program here in Ouray County, and we wanted to know more about how these kinds of services work in other places in Colorado where th...
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Commissioner: ‘My patience is gone’
Claiming continued poor behavior, Nauer asks Padgett to take 'timeout,' attend meetings remotely
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
November 19, 2025
Ouray County Commissioner Michelle Nauer has asked Commissioner Lynn Padgett to take a "timeout" and attend meetings by Zoom while the county makes leadership transitions over the next few months, cit...
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Police chief, sheriff urge Ouray council to rethink strict response time policy
Councilors table plan requiring officers to live within 10 miles of city after concern from leaders
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
November 19, 2025
The Ouray City Council on Monday pitched and then quickly ditched a proposal to require police officers to live within 10 miles and a 10-minute drive from the city after local law enforcement and city...
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SMPA approves rate increases
Monthly base, peak energy charges to rise in 2026 as electric cooperative prepares for escalating wholesale power costs
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
November 19, 2025
The San Miguel Power Association board of directors on Tuesday approved dual rate increases in 2026 for the second year in a row, as the rural electric cooperative continues to grapple with higher who...
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Ridgway hires North Carolina agency for tourism, marketing
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
November 19, 2025
The town of Ridgway has hired a North Carolina-based agency for its tourism and marketing services, choosing an outside perspective familiar with rural communities. During a Nov. 12 town council meeti...
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