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Judge orders mediation in foodborne illness suits
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
February 14, 2024
Trial set for Jan. 2025; health officials fail to identify source of taco shop contamination A judge has ordered the two people who sued Taco del Gnar over a parasite they say they contracted from eat...
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CORRECTION
February 14, 2024
A photo caption on Page 12 in the Feb. 8-14 edition that accompanied a Colorado Sun story about the closure of the Integrated Insight Community Care clinic in Delta misidentified the person in the pho...
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A net-zero affordable housing complex aims to fix twin crises in mountain town
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A net-zero affordable housing complex aims to fix twin crises in mountain town
By Kyle Cooke Rocky Mountain PBS 
February 14, 2024
BRECKENRIDGE — To the west of the Alta Verde community’s parking lot, the snow-capped peaks of the Tenmile Range create a natural skyline. The winding Blue River, currently masked by several inches — ...
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NEWS BRIEFS
February 14, 2024
Health Department director leaving position Ouray County Health Department Director Tanner Kingery is leaving his position, and the county has advertised for the vacancy. Kingery, who told his staff o...
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Insurance troubles offer ‘a wakeup call’
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Insurance troubles offer ‘a wakeup call’
Ouray County residents’ experiences could signal potential tightening of insurance market due to fire risk
By Gabrielle Porter / Special to the Plaindealer 
February 7, 2024
By modern real estate standards, Keith and Lyn Meinert’s plan to sell their home at the top of Lee’s Ski Hill and move to Montrose last year should have been nearly seamless. The longtime Ouray reside...
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CBI: Accused rapist said he thought woman was his wife
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CBI: Accused rapist said he thought woman was his wife
By Erin McIntyre erin@ouraynews.com 
February 7, 2024
Editor's note: This story contains details about an alleged sexual assault. A Ridgway man accused of raping a 28-year-old woman in her home in December claimed he thought she was his wife, who was in ...
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Teen charged as adult in alleged rape
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Teen charged as adult in alleged rape
By Erin McIntyre erin@ouraynews.com 
February 7, 2024
Prosecutors have decided to charge the Ouray police chief's stepson as an adult in an alleged sexual assault case. The 7th Judicial District Attorney's Office last week direct filed charges against Na...
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CORRECTION
February 7, 2024
A story about local ambulance driver Jim Link on Page 1 in the Feb. 1-7 edition gave the incorrect first name of Link's wife. It is Katie.
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Regional mental health clinic closes
By Tatiana Flowers The Colorado Sun 
February 7, 2024
State alleges patient safety, financial problems at facility that served Ouray, other counties A troubled multicounty clinic based in Delta that offered physical and mental health services to some of ...
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Ouray begins tackling question: where to put dozens of new housing units
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
February 7, 2024
Faced with a projected need to build dozens of housing units in the next decade, Ouray city leaders on Monday began brainstorming potential locations for those homes. A new report from Economic and Pl...
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City mulls in-town shuttle to ease traffic bottleneck
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
February 7, 2024
The city of Ouray is exploring the possibility of launching a shuttle service that would ferry visitors and residents from one end of town to the other with stops in between, with the goal of alleviat...
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County OKs permit for lodge after deliberation
By Deb Hurley Brobst Special to the Plaindealer 
February 7, 2024
Some residents cite concerns about Red Mountain Alpine Lodge Red Mountain Alpine Lodge will continue operating as a bed-and-breakfast, though it is subject to conditions to ensure it is complying with...
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Ouray begins push to overhaul parks
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Ouray begins push to overhaul parks
By Daniel Schmidt daniel@ouraynews.com 
January 31, 2024
From permanent stage to new restrooms, councilors prioritize millions of dollars of improvements The city of Ouray last week began a multi-million dollar push to overhaul its municipal park system, wi...
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CORRECTION
January 31, 2024
Due to an editor's error, a letter to the editor in the Jan. 18-24 edition should have said Oliver, Samuel and Serafina Fellin sold land that later became Fellin Park to the city of Ouray in 1919 for ...
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Community kicks around solutions to Hot Springs Pool problems
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
January 31, 2024
Studying aquifer, replacing geothermal line, collecting seeping water all pitched at meeting Collect superheated water bubbling up from beneath the Earth’s surface that’s currently being lost to a col...
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Man accused of sex assault again
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Man accused of sex assault again
By Mike Wiggins and Erin McIntyre mike@ouraynews.com erin@ouraynews.com 
January 31, 2024
Six years after acquittal, Brian Scranton arrested in another suspected rape case A Ridgway man acquitted by a jury in a felony sexual assault case in Ouray County in 2018 has been arrested for allege...
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Police chief placed on admin leave
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Police chief placed on admin leave
By Mike Wiggins and Erin McIntyre mike@ouraynews.com erin@ouraynews.com 
January 31, 2024
No timetable for return in wake of sex assault case against stepson, 2 others Ouray Police Chief Jeff Wood was placed on paid administrative leave on Monday, more than a month after his stepson and tw...
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Man found not guilty in 2018 rape trial arrested for alleged sex assault
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Six years after acquittal, Brian Scranton faces charges
Man found not guilty in 2018 rape trial arrested for alleged sex assault
By Mike Wiggins And Erin Mcintyre 
January 30, 2024
A Ridgway man acquitted by a jury in a felony sexual assault case in Ouray County in 2018 has been arrested for alleged sexual assault again. Brian Scranton, 48, was arrested on a warrant on suspicion...
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Ouray police chief placed on administrative leave
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Ouray police chief placed on administrative leave
By Plaindealer Staff 
January 29, 2024
Ouray Police Chief Jeff Wood was placed on paid administrative leave on Monday, pending the outcome of criminal proceedings against his stepson and two other men who have been accused of raping a 17-y...
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TIME TO ROCK
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TIME TO ROCK
January 24, 2024
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Firefighters gain ground on Gold Mountain Fire
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Firefighters gain ground on Gold Mountain Fire
Sheriff allows some evacuees to return home; blaze shifts away from populated areas
By By Mike Wiggins, Erin McIntyre and Deb Hurley Brobst mike@ouraynews.com erin@ouraynews.com 
July 8, 2026
Residents forced to flee the Gold Mountain Fire north of Ouray nearly two weeks ago returned to charred landscapes but fully intact homes Wednesday, an indication that authorities believe the threat h...
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Despite fire, downsized Fourth celebration marches on
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Despite fire, downsized Fourth celebration marches on
By Erin McIntyre erin@ouraynews.com 
July 8, 2026
A scaled-back Fourth of July celebration of the 250th birthday of the United States and 150th birthday of Ouray attracted thousands to the city, despite the cancellation of fireworks, water fights and...
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First fire, then floods? Leaders start planning for next potential emergency
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First fire, then floods? Leaders start planning for next potential emergency
By Deb Hurley Brobst Special to the Plaindealer 
July 8, 2026
Even though the Gold Mountain Fire is still burning, Ouray County officials are already thinking about flash flood risks in the burn scar as Colorado moves into monsoon season. “This is a predictable ...
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Water providers ask customers to pull back
Ridgway enacts mandatory irrigation restrictions
By Mike Wiggins and Erin McIntyre mike@ouraynews.com erin@ouraynews.com 
July 8, 2026
Water managers in Ouray County are asking residents to curtail water use and avoid putting more demand on their distribution systems in light of the Gold Mountain Fire and ongoing tinder-dry condition...
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Looking Back
50 Years Ago
July 8, 2026
July 7, 1966 Charges have been filed in Ouray County Court against three Ouray youths for violation of state statutes in climbing over a fence at the municipal swimming pool last Friday and breaking b...
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