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AROUND THE REGION
By News Staff 
July 2, 2020
GUNNISON For 69 years, the City of Gunnison has marked the Fourth of July with social gatherings and fireworks. While the tradition will continue this year, things will look different compared to year...
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NEWS BRIEFS
By News Staff 
July 2, 2020
Ranch history museum opens The Ouray Cou nty Ranch History Museum is open for the season. The museum, located at 321 Sherman St., is open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, and from noon...
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Administrator search stalls
By Mike Wiggins 
July 2, 2020
Ouray's search for a new city administrator took a step back Tuesday when officials announced that at least two of the candidates being considered as finalists pulled their applications. Mayor Greg Ne...
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Parents: Return to traditional school
By Carolina Brown 
July 2, 2020
A majority of Ridgway parents support getting their kids back into the classroom this fall, according to the results of a parent survey conducted last month. Of the 133 respondents, 66 percent were in...
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Ouray schools juggle funding to keep pay intact
By Carolina Brown 
July 2, 2020
The Ouray School Board passed a budget without step increases to staff salary on Monday after lengthy deliberation during that meeting as well as a meeting June 25 on how to balance budget shortfalls ...
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Fire bans sweep across region
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Fire bans sweep across region
By Carolina Brown And Mike Wiggins 
July 2, 2020
Federal and local agencies moved swiftly and simultaneously this week to implement fire bans across Ouray County and the surrounding region, citing parched conditions and a high wildfire danger. Ouray...
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To mask, or not to mask, that is the conflict
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To mask, or not to mask, that is the conflict
By Lizteitz And Erin Mcintyre 
July 2, 2020
Some Ouray County business owners are calling on elected officials to require masks indoors, citing confrontations with visitors who refuse to follow the businesses’ rules. Local governments thus far ...
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Embattled sheriff toppled
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Embattled sheriff toppled
By Erin McIntyre 
July 2, 2020
Voters decisively ousted Sheriff Lance FitzGerald in the county's first recall election, after a bipartisan effort to remove him from office succeeded a nd he was unseated in a landslide. Unofficial e...
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FitzGerald to be removed from office in county’s first recall election
By News Staff 
June 30, 2020
UPDATE as of 9:58 p.m. Ouray County Sheriff Lance FitzGerald has been ousted in a landslide – with 93 percent of voters opting to vote him out of office. Preliminary results show 2,527 votes in favor ...
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Ouray County adopts fire ban, citing wildfire risk
By Carolina Brown 
June 30, 2020
The Board of County Commissioners approved a county-wide stage one fire ban starting Thursday, preventing the use of fireworks over the July 4 weekend.  Commissioner Ben Tisdel requested the board dis...
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Teen escapes vehicle plunge unharmed
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Teen escapes vehicle plunge unharmed
By Mike Wiggins 
June 25, 2020
Police say a recent Ouray High School graduate was fortunate to escape with no injuries after her car plunged off a hill on County Road 361 last weekend. Tristyn Guzman, 18, who graduated in May, craw...
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City seeks tourism marketing input
By Mike Wiggins 
June 25, 2020
Ouray city councilors have repeatedly said they want to re-examine how money is spent to market the city to tourists. Now they’re creating a committee to help them do just that. The city is accepting ...
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Log Hill grow facility granted expansion
By Carolina Brown 
June 25, 2020
After nearly five hours of contentious public hearings, comments and deliberation, Ouray County commissioners agreed Tuesday to allow a marijuana grow operation to expand on Log Hill Mesa. During the ...
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AROUND THE REGION
By News Staff 
June 25, 2020
GUNNISON One of the key issues hotly debated in the 2018 Gunnison County Sheriff's election continues to plague the department - that of turnover. And the question posed then remains unanswered today ...
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Health officials: Don’t use antibody tests for workplace decisions
By Liz Teitz 
June 25, 2020
Some Ouray County employers have asked workers to get coronavirus antibody tests in order to return to work, against the advice of medical experts who question the tests’ value and accuracy. In the la...
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Gov encourages visitors to wear masks
By Erin McIntyre 
June 25, 2020
Colorado is rolling out a new ad campaign to encourage visitors to socially distance and wear masks if they decide to vacation here, asking tourists to be responsible. Gov. Jared Polis debuted the edu...
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Eatery granted amplified music permit
By Mike Wiggins 
June 25, 2020
The Ouray City Council has granted a special noise permit to the owners of Goldbelt Bar and Grill that will allow them to have live music on select dates this summer. Councilors unanimously approved t...
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Drought intensifies in county
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Drought intensifies in county
By Erin McIntyre 
June 25, 2020
Colorado is bracing for a long, hot summer and more than 80 percent of the state is already in abnormally dry to drought conditions, according to information from the state climatologist’s office this...
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(Almost) everybody back in the pool
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(Almost) everybody back in the pool
By Liz Teitz 
June 25, 2020
The Ouray Hot Springs Pool reopened Monday with limited guests and facilities, more than three months after closing. Instead of the hundreds of people who would typically visit on a warm June day, th...
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Campaign contributions flow in race to replace sheriff
By Erin McIntyre 
June 25, 2020
The candidates seeking to replace Sheriff Lance FitzGerald have raised three times as much in campaign contributions as the race in which he was elected in 2018. Together, the candidates hoping to uns...
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Firefighters gain ground on Gold Mountain Fire
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Firefighters gain ground on Gold Mountain Fire
Sheriff allows some evacuees to return home; blaze shifts away from populated areas
By By Mike Wiggins, Erin McIntyre and Deb Hurley Brobst mike@ouraynews.com erin@ouraynews.com 
July 8, 2026
Residents forced to flee the Gold Mountain Fire north of Ouray nearly two weeks ago returned to charred landscapes but fully intact homes Wednesday, an indication that authorities believe the threat h...
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Despite fire, downsized Fourth celebration marches on
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Despite fire, downsized Fourth celebration marches on
By Erin McIntyre erin@ouraynews.com 
July 8, 2026
A scaled-back Fourth of July celebration of the 250th birthday of the United States and 150th birthday of Ouray attracted thousands to the city, despite the cancellation of fireworks, water fights and...
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First fire, then floods? Leaders start planning for next potential emergency
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First fire, then floods? Leaders start planning for next potential emergency
By Deb Hurley Brobst Special to the Plaindealer 
July 8, 2026
Even though the Gold Mountain Fire is still burning, Ouray County officials are already thinking about flash flood risks in the burn scar as Colorado moves into monsoon season. “This is a predictable ...
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Water providers ask customers to pull back
Ridgway enacts mandatory irrigation restrictions
By Mike Wiggins and Erin McIntyre mike@ouraynews.com erin@ouraynews.com 
July 8, 2026
Water managers in Ouray County are asking residents to curtail water use and avoid putting more demand on their distribution systems in light of the Gold Mountain Fire and ongoing tinder-dry condition...
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Looking Back
50 Years Ago
July 8, 2026
July 7, 1966 Charges have been filed in Ouray County Court against three Ouray youths for violation of state statutes in climbing over a fence at the municipal swimming pool last Friday and breaking b...
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