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Panel OKs 911 surcharge hike
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
OURAY COUNTY The Colorado Public Utilities Commission has approved a request from the Ouray Emergency Telephone Service Authority to increase monthly 911 surcharges from 70 cents to $1.25. The Ouray a...
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Blaze challenges firefighters
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Blaze challenges firefighters
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
OURAY COUNTY Concerned community members attended a meeting with fire officials Tuesday night who updated them on the Cow Creek Fire, estimated to have grown to 853 acres as of Wednesday morning. The...
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Efforts underway to preserve Idarado Houses
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Efforts underway to preserve Idarado Houses
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
OURAY COUNTY Hopes are high that the historic Idarado Houses located in a switchback on Highway 550 near Red Mountain Pass may soon be preserved. Pat Willits of the Trust for Land Restoration has long...
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Halloween haunts in Ouray and Ridgway
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Halloween haunts in Ouray and Ridgway
By Carolina Brown 
October 23, 2019
  Exciting events are scheduled around the county this Halloween season. In Ouray, celebrations will supplement the annual trick-or-treating down Main Street. Scary thrills for kids and adults alike w...
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Southwest Colorado back in drought’s grip
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
WESTERN COLORADO The scene was stark for its incongruity: billows of smoke rising in front of the jagged Cimarrons coated with fresh snow. Perhaps the most noteworthy thing about Ouray County's first ...
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‘Gathering of the Flock’ an epic event for rail fans
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‘Gathering of the Flock’ an epic event for rail fans
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
OURAY COUNTY More than 1,000 railfans from across the nation and Europe visited Ridgway on Oct. 12 and 13 to ride and learn about five historically significant railroad motor cars, commonly referred t...
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Former undersheriff scheduled for trial
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Former undersheriff scheduled for trial
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
OURAY COUNTY Former Ouray County Undersheriff Richard Herman has pleaded not guilty to charges alleging he solicited sex from a teenage boy and is scheduled for a three-day jury trial in April. Herman...
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Mayoral hopefuls dominate spending
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
CITY OF OURAY Ouray mayoral candidate Greg Nelson is the only one of the seven candidates for City Council who has received donations thus far, and he and fellow mayoral candidate and current Mayor Pr...
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CORRECTION
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
In a profile of Ridgway School Board candidate John Countryman published in the Oct. 17 edition of the Plaindealer, a formatting error resulted in the number of years he’s resided in Ouray County bein...
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Meet the school board candidates
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Meet the school board candidates
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
OURAY SCHOOLS Editor's note: The Plaindealer invited candidates for the local school board races to introduce themselves. In the Oct. 17 edition we featured Ridgway School Board candidates. This week...
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Board meets with ‘Teacher Council’
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
OURAY SCHOOLS A more than hour-long special session of the Ouray School Board with a “Teacher Council,” held Oct. 16 off campus, was attended by 21 people, mostly Ouray School teachers and three board...
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Candidates share top donors in race
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
RIDGWAY SCHOOLS Two of the candidates in Ridgway’s contested race for school board have raised campaign contributions outside their own personal spending and share top donors. This is the first school...
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Elks Lodge seeks scholarship applicants
By News Staff 
October 23, 2019
OURAY COUNTY Over the last 85 years, the Elks National Foundation has awarded thousands of college scholarships worth tens of millions of dollars to high school seniors, an effort that encompasses loc...
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Board recommends hotel expansion
By Mike Wiggins 
October 16, 2019
  Despite concerns about the size and impact of the project, the Ouray Planning Commission has recommended approval of a major expansion of the Twin Peaks Lodge & Hot Springs. With only three of the f...
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OURAY COUNTY
By News Staff 
October 16, 2019
COPS This is an excerpt of cases handled by the Ouray County Sheriff’s Office from Oct. 7-13, 2019. Oct. 7 Deputies assisted the Colorado State Patrol with an accident involving a deer and car at High...
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RIDGWAY MARSHAL
By News Staff 
October 16, 2019
  The following is an excerpt of cases handled by the Ridgway Marshal's Office from Sept. 24 to Oct. 7, 2019. If you have information on any of the below active cases or of any other incident that you...
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Forums host board candidates
By Carolina Brown 
October 16, 2019
  All four candidates for the Ridgway School Board agree teacher pay and retention are the top issues for the district, they said during a candidate forum Tuesday night. Candidates Brian Patton, John ...
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Town adopts new water rates, after much debate
By Erin McIntyre 
October 16, 2019
  After months of debate Ridgway’s town council unanimously adopted a new water rate structure, raising the minimum cost of water for residential customers and adjusting the points at which overage ch...
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WESTERN SLOPE NEWS BRIEFS
By News Staff 
October 16, 2019
SILVERTON - Three people were injured in a off-highway vehicle accident on Stony Pass on Sept. 26, according to the San Juan County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff Bruce Conrad said there were actually two ...
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Crews battle Cow Creek Fire
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Crews battle Cow Creek Fire
By News Staff 
October 16, 2019
OURAY COUNTY Fire crews from around Ouray County responded early Wednesday morning to a wildfire that ignited in the Cimarrons east of Ridgway. Ouray County Emergency Manager Glenn Boyd said a group o...
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Hurd introduces House bill to transfer Crystal Reservoir to Ouray
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Hurd introduces House bill to transfer Crystal Reservoir to Ouray
By LIA SALVATIERRA 
November 4, 2025
U.S. Rep. Jeff Hurd has introduced legislation to transfer ownership of Crystal Reservoir from the U.S. Forest Service to the city of Ouray, identical to a Senate bill introduced in September, after w...
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Ridgway girls cross country team nabs state title
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Ridgway girls cross country team nabs state title
By Plaindealer Staff Report 
November 1, 2025
The Ridgway High School girls’ cross country team is bringing a state title back to the San Juans. The six-person team won the Class 2A state title Saturday afternoon in Colorado Springs, capping a te...
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Food assistance benefits dry up
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Food assistance benefits dry up
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
October 29, 2025
An estimated $51,000 in federal food benefits will no longer be available to 170 Ouray County households starting Friday. The monthlong federal government shutdown without Congressional appropriations...
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Mine shaft wasn’t identified as hazard
State vows to secure opening quickly following Ridgway woman's death
By Erin McIntyre erin@ouraynews.com 
October 29, 2025
A dangerous, water-filled mine shaft where a woman's body was found last week had not yet been identified for closure by state officials charged with securing hazardous mine openings. Though the state...
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Pushback against wolves grows
Ranchers oppose release in county; feds seek to block state
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
October 29, 2025
The Ouray County Cattlemen’s Association has objected to releasing wolves in the county, amid other efforts potentially complicating or stifling wolf reintroduction in the region this winter. A letter...
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