Videos Login Subscribe Renew E-edition
logo
ePaper
coogle_play
app_store
  • News
  • Features
  • Opinion
    • Columns
    • Letters
  • Obituaries
  • Classifieds
    • Place a Classified
  • Advertise
  • Contact us
  • Legal Notices
    • Read Statewide Legal Notices
  • Archives
    • News
    • Features
    • Opinion
      • Columns
      • Letters
    • Obituaries
    • Classifieds
      • Place a Classified
    • Advertise
    • Contact us
    • Legal Notices
      • Read Statewide Legal Notices
    • Archives
“Safer at Home” public health order issued, more details explained
Covid
“Safer at Home” public health order issued, more details explained
By News Staff 
April 27, 2020
The state has issued a detailed protocol with its newest health order introducing a "safer at home" transition from the previous "stay-at-home" order. Gov. Jared Polis' order still says Coloradans sho...
this is a test
COVID Diaries: Shelter finds silver lining in response to pandemic, pivots approach to serving animals and humans alike
Covid
COVID Diaries: Shelter finds silver lining in response to pandemic, pivots approach to serving animals and humans alike
By News Staff 
April 26, 2020
ABOUT THIS PROJECT When the coronavirus pandemic hit, a coalition of Colorado journalists already had been talking about how to better serve the public by collaborating and sharing stories. The urgen...
this is a test
Businesses navigate confusion over health orders as statewide stay-at-home order expires today
Covid
Businesses navigate confusion over health orders as statewide stay-at-home order expires today
By News Staff 
April 26, 2020
Local businesses are navigating layers of health orders from the state and county regarding when and how they can reopen, as the governor's statewide stay-at-home order expires today. While some categ...
this is a test
Ride The Rockies canceled for 2020
Covid
Ride The Rockies canceled for 2020
By News Staff 
April 24, 2020
Ouray County won't have more than 2,000 cyclists coming through this summer, as Ride the Rockies' 2020 event has been canceled. Event officials emailed local authorities earlier this week to let them ...
this is a test
County keeps lodging, quarantine orders in place
Covid
County keeps lodging, quarantine orders in place
By News Staff 
April 24, 2020
Ouray County will lift two public health orders requiring the closure of bars, restaurants and non-essential personal services and limiting mass gatherings, but will keep restrictions in place for sec...
this is a test
Covid
County enforces lodging restrictions with a feather, not a fist
By News Staff 
April 23, 2020
By Samantha Tisdel Wright Special to the Plaindealer   "Go away." It's a tough message to send out into the world, for a community hard-wired to woo tourists to stay and play. But ever since March 20,...
this is a test
County slows lifting orders
Covid
County slows lifting orders
By Carolina Brown And Erin Mcintyre 
April 23, 2020
Ouray County plans on loosening restrictions in relation to COVID-19 on a different timeline than the rest of the state, which will relax "stay-at-home" orders and transition to a "safer at home" phas...
this is a test
News
Search for new roads boss on hold
By Carolina Brown 
April 23, 2020
Ouray County will give more hours to its interim Road and Bridge Department superintendent instead of ramping up its efforts to hire a new boss. County officia ls have been trying to hire a new roads ...
this is a test
City mulls privatizing pool management
News
City mulls privatizing pool management
By Mike Wiggins 
April 23, 2020
The Ouray City Council is considering hiring a private company to manage the Hot Springs Pool, concerned that visitation and revenue genera ted by the city's most popular tourist attraction has flatte...
this is a test
News
Reinventing the Ouray Tourism Office
By Mike Wiggins 
April 23, 2020
Two days after learning the city of Ouray would not renew contracts that gave the Ouray Tourism Office the authority — and the funding — to market to tourists and run the Visitors’ Center, Ryan Hein m...
this is a test
ALL DRESSED UP WITH NOWHERE TO GO
Covid
ALL DRESSED UP WITH NOWHERE TO GO
By Erin McIntyre 
April 23, 2020
The peach, sequined dress arrived weeks ago, delivered in a box to the house. She carefully opened the package, lifted out the gown and admired its sequins, the applique flowers. Seventeen-year-old L...
this is a test
Workers strive to stay afloat
Covid
Workers strive to stay afloat
By Kailyn Lamb 
April 23, 2020
As the stay-at-home order continues and non-essential businesses remain closed, workers and business owners in Ouray County are wondering how long their savings can keep them going. When Gov. Jared Po...
this is a test
Pandemic teaching harsh lessons
Covid
Pandemic teaching harsh lessons
By Katie Langford 
April 23, 2020
A pandemic, weeks of uncertainty, a frantic move-out and a nonstop cross-country road trip were not what Rosalind Greisz had in mind for her junior year of college. Colleges and universities across t...
this is a test
Vacation rentals to the rescue
Covid
Vacation rentals to the rescue
By Samantha Tisdel Wright 
April 23, 2020
Here's one bright spot to the coronavirus crisis. Ouray County residents impacted by the coronavirus pandemic who need to find temporary housing outside of their own home now have a free place to stay...
this is a test
Covid
Schools to remain shuttered
By Erin McIntyre 
April 16, 2020
Students in Ouray County won't be returning to school in-person for the remainder of the school year. Ouray and Ridgway school district leaders announced they would continue to suspend face-to-face le...
this is a test
Covid
Bruin drops recycling during virus
By Carolina Brown 
April 16, 2020
Last month’s sudden cancellation of recycling services by Bruin Waste Management has left Ridgway residents with a choice: Let plastic bottles, cans, paper and cardboard languish in a landfill - or in...
this is a test
GHOST TOWN
News
GHOST TOWN
By News Staff 
April 16, 2020
Traffic was nonexistent on Ouray's Main Street during a recent spring day, as shown from this aerial photo looking south toward Mt. Abram. Gov. Jared Polis's stay-at-home order is in effect until at l...
this is a test
News
Council meeting grows testy
By Mike Wiggins 
April 16, 2020
A special meeting Wednesday intended for the Ouray City Council to consider what kind of message the city wants to put out to tourists in the midst of the COVlD-19 pandemic devolved into two councilor...
this is a test
News
NEWS BRIEFS
By News Staff 
April 16, 2020
Sheriff pleads not guilty in DUI case Lance FitzGerald has pleaded not guilty in his alleged DUI case, stemming from an incident in November. Seventh Judicial District County Court Judge Kurt Beckenha...
this is a test
News
Utilities assisting financially burdened customers
By Mike Wiggins 
April 16, 2020
The utility companies that power and heat Ouray County homes and business have put a freeze on disconnecting customers who may be struggling to pay their bills and are working with them on payment pla...
this is a test
  • 1
  • …
  • 155
  • 156
  • 157
  • …
  • 182
ePaper
coogle_play
app_store
ePaper
coogle_play
app_store
Editor Picks
Second Chance adopts new challenge in expansion
Main, News...
Second Chance adopts new challenge in expansion
Humane society takes over Delta shelter, seeks to rehome more animals
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
June 3, 2026
Second Chance Humane Society is adopting a new beast: another Western Slope animal shelter in Delta. The Ridgway-based nonprofit organization officially took the reins of the Delta Animal Shelter on M...
this is a test
Main, News...
Staff criticizes commissioners
Survey: Workers satisfied with bosses
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
June 3, 2026
Ouray County’s employees are largely happy with their direct supervisors and department heads and dissatisfied with the Board of County Commissioners, according to a recent anonymous staff survey. Som...
this is a test
Main, News...
City reverses, will stick with sheriff for now
Council concerned about budget impacts from rebuilding police department
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
June 3, 2026
The Ouray City Council is reversing course on rebuilding an independent police department, agreeing Monday to instead continue to rely on the Ouray County Sheriff’s Office for law enforcement services...
this is a test
Board: Ice Park at ‘inflection point’
News
Board: Ice Park at ‘inflection point’
Seeking help from city, nonprofit claims funding sources drying up as operational costs climb
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
June 3, 2026
The nonprofit organization that runs the Ouray Ice Park cautioned Monday that it has reached a crossroads, saying its operational costs continue to climb even as its funding sources are saturated. In ...
this is a test
News
Crystal bill passes House
Legislation to transfer reservoir to city moves on to Senate committee
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
June 3, 2026
A bill to transfer Crystal Reservoir to the city of Ouray is another step closer to becoming law after the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed it on Tuesday. The legislation now awaits ap...
this is a test
Facebook

Remote-triggered avalanche in San Juan Mountains

First responders receive first COVID-19 vaccines

Ouray County Plaindealer
Office address:

195 S Lena St. Unit D
Ridgway, Colorado 81432
970-325-4412

Mailing address:
PO Box 529
Ridgway CO 81432

This site complies with ADA requirements

© 2023 Ouray County Plaindealer

  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • Accessibility Policy