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
News
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...
this is a test
News
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...
this is a test
News
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...
this is a test
News
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 ...
this is a test
News
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...
this is a test
News
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...
this is a test
New undersheriff eager to serve community
News
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...
this is a test
Ridgway nursery blooms again with new owner
News
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...
this is a test
News
Ouray Police Blotter July 15-21, 2019
By News Staff 
July 25, 2019
this is a test
News
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...
this is a test
Realtor fills board vacancy
News
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...
this is a test
VETERANS HONORED IN RIDGWAY
News
VETERANS HONORED IN RIDGWAY
By News Staff 
July 24, 2019
this is a test
News
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...
this is a test
Coming together for Max
News
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...
this is a test
News
Undersheriff indicted on child sex counts
By Erin McIntyre 
July 24, 2019
  The Ouray County undersheriff has been indicted by a grand jury on two counts alleging he committed two crimes – criminal attempt to commit inducement of child prostitution and child abuse. Richard ...
this is a test
News
Planning Commission hosts film screenings
By Carolina Brown 
July 24, 2019
OURAY COUNTY The Ouray County Planning Commission is showing the documentary film “The Era of Megafires” at three locations across the county in the coming days as outreach to generate public support ...
this is a test
News
WESTERN SLOPE NEWS BRIEFS
By News Staff 
July 24, 2019
SILVERTON -It's now possible to drive the Alpine Loop from Silverton to Lake City and back, but motorists will have to take the long way, over Hurricane Pass and down California Gulch to get to Animas...
this is a test
News
National Forest opens up fuelwood harvest area
By News Staff 
July 24, 2019
WESTERN COLORADO Locals can stock their personal firewood piles for free if they use a permit to harvest downed Ponderosa pine in certain areas of the Uncompahgre Plateau. The Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre ...
this is a test
News
Wildlife commission expands access program
By News Staff 
July 24, 2019
  The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission voted to expand its Public Access Program by 100,000 acres in time for the fall hunting season, at the commission’s meeting last week in Telluride. The exp...
this is a test
News
City calls out ‘terrible’ trash service
By Mike Wiggins 
July 24, 2019
  Frustrated Ouray city officials want to see better communication and service from Waste Management following what they considered a subpar trash pickup day earlier this month. City leaders fielded s...
this is a test
  • 1
  • …
  • 169
  • 170
  • 171
  • …
  • 173
ePaper
coogle_play
app_store
ePaper
coogle_play
app_store
Editor Picks
New county manager seeks to lead with heart
Main, News...
New county manager seeks to lead with heart
After careers in big cities and large governments, Antonio Mendez is shifting his perspective
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
February 4, 2026
Ouray County is unlike most places Antonio Mendez has lived or worked before, and Mendez brings experience unlike the county has seen in two decades, or possibly ever. Ouray County’s new manager grew ...
this is a test
City leader pulls police from patrol duty
Main, News...
City leader pulls police from patrol duty
Administrator cites concerns about training, liability; sheriff's office assumes full control of services in Ouray
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
February 4, 2026
Ouray City Administrator Michelle Metteer has pulled the police department’s two remaining officers off of patrol duty and reassigned them to administrative tasks, citing concerns about liability and ...
this is a test
News
County considers asking voters for tax hike in November
Staff to research potential funding measures for EMS, road and bridge; sheriff won't seek question this fall
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
February 4, 2026
Ouray County leaders want to research and poll the public’s appetite for asking voters for more tax revenue, to raise additional money for the county’s Emergency Medical Services and the Road and Brid...
this is a test
News
Ridgway gets initial OK for $1.34M grant
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
February 4, 2026
Ridgway has received initial approval for a $1.34 million grant to help it explore an all-electric building code for new construction and help electrify municipal operations, to lower its carbon footp...
this is a test
Good for you! Uncompahgre STEAM Fair
Feature
Good for you! Uncompahgre STEAM Fair
February 4, 2026
The “Good For You!” page is a place for reader-submitted photos illustrating community, celebrations and more. Want to submit a photo for publication? Here are some guidelines for submissions: - This ...
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