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Anesthesiologists need to know of pot use
By News Staff 
August 7, 2019
When Colorado legalized marijuana, it became a pioneer in creating new policies to deal with the drug. Now the state’s surgeons, nurses and anesthesiologists are becoming pioneers of a different sort ...
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Free ice cream, concert Sunday
By News Staff 
August 7, 2019
TOWN OF RIDGWAY A free concert at United Church of the San Juans in Ridgway features a well-known local soprano as well as ice cream sundaes. Allyson Connally Cotham, the church's choir director, will...
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Rendezvous melds world-class art with small-town charm
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Rendezvous melds world-class art with small-town charm
By News Staff 
August 7, 2019
TOWN OF RIDGWAY Artists from around the country will descend on Ridgway this weekend for a festival that blends quality with accessibility. Now in its 35th year, the Ridgway Rendezvous arts and crafts...
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Ouray Police Blotter July 22-28, 2019
By News Staff 
August 1, 2019
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Police: Undersheriff solicited boy
By Erin McIntyre 
July 31, 2019
  A longtime Ouray County sheriff’s deputy who had been promoted to undersheriff is accused of soliciting sex from a 15-year-old boy who was walking home from school last year, according to an indictm...
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Commissioner remembered as engaged leader
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Commissioner remembered as engaged leader
By Erin McIntyre 
July 31, 2019
  A week before he died, Dave Calhoon was doing one of the things he loved best — letting public officials know where he stood on Ouray County issues. He had served as county commissioner himself for ...
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WESTERN SLOPE NEWS BRIEFS
By News Staff 
July 31, 2019
SILVERTON - Voters in Lake City on July 22 rejected a ballot measure that would have banned off-highway vehicles from the town's streets. Town officials report the vote was 119 in favor of the propose...
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Ouray to share public health director with San Miguel County
By Carolina Brown 
July 31, 2019
Ouray County’s new health department director will split her time with San Miguel County, in an agreement where the two governments will share costs to employ Rosalind Penney, who will start her job a...
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Council to discuss housing tax question
By News Staff 
July 31, 2019
CITY OF OURAY The Ouray City Council will meet this evening, Aug. 1, to devise wording for a potential ballot question asking voters to approve a tax on short-term rental units to help pay for afforda...
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Commissioners seek beefed-up forest patrol
By Carolina Brown 
July 31, 2019
  Ouray County commissioners want the U.S. Forest Service to station more rangers to patrol the high country and prevent damage caused by visitors, among other requests made in a letter to the agency ...
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After snafu, new trash carts arrive
By Mike Wiggins 
July 31, 2019
  Ouray city residents should have new bear-proof trash containers to roll down their driveways in the coming days, if they don't have them already. And this time, Waste Management says, the container...
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Big game poacher fined, could lose hunting privileges
By Mike Wiggins 
July 31, 2019
  A western Colorado man will pay $10,000 in fines and could lose his hunting and fishing privileges in Colorado and 47 other states for illegally killing big game over the last several years, accordi...
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New undersheriff eager to serve community
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New undersheriff eager to serve community
By Carolina Brown 
July 31, 2019
  With over 35 years of law enforcement behind him – and nearly 20 of those years in Ouray - Ted Wolfe is willing to serve his community as long as he is needed. The new Ouray County undersheriff is a...
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Ridgway nursery blooms again with new owner
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Ridgway nursery blooms again with new owner
By Erin McIntyre 
July 25, 2019
Park Nursery and Garden Center is blooming again. After a short, dormant period, Ridgway's resident garden center is filled with flowers, with trailing vines and blooms spilling from the hanging baske...
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Ouray Police Blotter July 15-21, 2019
By News Staff 
July 25, 2019
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After long battle, DMEA to end Tri-State membership
By Mike Wiggins 
July 25, 2019
WESTERN COLORADO Delta-Montrose Electric Association will withdraw its membership in Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association next year, concluding a protracted, contentious legal battle that...
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Realtor fills board vacancy
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Realtor fills board vacancy
By Erin McIntyre 
July 24, 2019
Ouray business owner and Realtor Mike Feeser will fill the vacancy on the Ouray School Board, created when Board Secretary Bryan Williams resigned last month. The board held a special board meeting Ju...
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VETERANS HONORED IN RIDGWAY
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VETERANS HONORED IN RIDGWAY
By News Staff 
July 24, 2019
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Storage units expansion denial could set precedent
By Carolina Brown 
July 24, 2019
  A storage unit business that expanded without approval shouldn’t receive a special use permit, according to a joint planning organization from Ridgway and Ouray. The Ridgway Area Joint Planning Boar...
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Coming together for Max
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Coming together for Max
By Erin McIntyre 
July 24, 2019
Max Schuetz was planning on coming to the fair, but not like this. He spent the last few months training a wild mustang, brought from a roundup on public lands in Nevada. He worked with the mare every...
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Carrie Ann Mund, left, dances with Tawnya Schiebel during the Mariachi de San Jose band’s performance in Ridgway’s Hartwell Park on June 29. The band performed as part of the fifth annual Fete de la M...
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Leaders object to public lands sale
Conservationists, ranchers, elected officials decry bill, though battle over federal property may return
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
July 2, 2025
Recent federal proposals to sell or develop Ouray County’s public lands would harm the county’s economy, identity and culture of ranching and public recreation, according to county officials and other...
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Sex assault trial moved to Montrose
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
July 2, 2025
A judge has ordered the trial of a man accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl in 2023 to be moved from Ouray to Montrose. Seventh Judicial Chief District Judge Cory Jackson approved the tri...
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Celebrating the Fourth in Ouray? Load up on sunscreen, patience, courtesy
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Celebrating the Fourth in Ouray? Load up on sunscreen, patience, courtesy
Private security to help with traffic, parking, so law enforcement can be more proactive
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
July 2, 2025
The sights and sounds of the Fourth of July in Ouray are ubiquitous. The powerful spray of fire hoses. The shrieks of kids racing through Fellin Park. Cheers and honking horns on Main Street. This yea...
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New weapons policy would ban public, allow employees to conceal carry
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
July 2, 2025
County leaders are debating a new policy that would ban the public from carrying any weapons within Ouray County buildings but allow county employees with valid permits to conceal carry weapons in mos...
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