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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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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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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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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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Artist’s installation the centerpiece of fest
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Artist’s installation the centerpiece of fest
By Mike Wiggins 
January 22, 2020
Jeff Skoloda’s relationship with the Ouray Ice Park dates back several years, back to when he began fashioning trophies for competition winners during the annual Ouray Ice Festival and performed ice c...
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County prioritizes housing efforts
By Erin McIntyre 
January 22, 2020
Ouray County will hit the pause button on being part of a housing advisory committee with the Town of Ridgway and City of Ouray, but will ramp up its internal efforts to examine opportunities for affo...
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CORRECTION
By News Staff 
January 22, 2020
An article headlined "'It's the right thing to do': GOP leaders vote to pursue recall" on Page 1 of the Jan. 16 edition of the Plaindealer incorrectly reported what would happen if Sheriff Lance FitzG...
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Trials in sex assault case delayed
By Mike Wiggins 
January 16, 2026
The trials for two men accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl in Ouray County in 2023 have been postponed. Gabriel Trujillo and Ashton Whittington were set to go to trial starting Feb. 9, b...
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Welcome to the snow-deo
January 14, 2026
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Residents seek retention of independent agency after departure of interim chief
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
January 14, 2026
Ouray residents sent a clear message this week: They want to maintain an independent police department instead of permanently relying on the Ouray County Sheriff’s Office for law enforcement. Faced wi...
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Tax questions linger as lodge proceeds with housing plans
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Tax questions linger as lodge proceeds with housing plans
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
January 14, 2026
MTN Lodge in Ridgway is moving forward with plans to convert the hotel to workforce housing for four years starting in February, though the town has yet to cement an agreement with the owners about pa...
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County OKs permit for guest ranch
Stipulations require Gold Mountain to account for bighorn sheep
By Deb Hurley Brobst Special to the Plaindealer 
January 14, 2026
Gold Mountain Ranch will be allowed to operate a guest ranch in Ouray County, and county commissioners hope the special-use permit they approved in December will allay community concerns about wildlif...
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