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County: Site should be renamed Hayden Gulch
By Carolina Brown 
April 7, 2022
Ouray County commissioners are prepared to recommend changing the name of Squaw Gulch to Hayden Gulch as part of a national effort to rename hundreds of geographical sites. Commissioners discussed the...
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Rubber Duck, over and out
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Ouray's Bill Fries, better known as "C.W. McCall," dies at 93
Rubber Duck, over and out
By Erin McIntyre 
April 7, 2022
He may have come to Ouray as an accidental tourist, but Bill Fries ended his life as a beloved community member and friend. The rest of the world knew him better as "C.W. McCall," his stage name under...
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CALENDAR & EVENTS
By News Staff 
April 7, 2022
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Every Friday and Saturday morning at 9 a.m. and every Wednesday night at 5:30 p.m. at St. Daniel’s Church, 614 Fifth St., Ouray. Every Thursday and Sunday at 7 p.m. in the sanctu...
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AROUND THE REGION
By News Staff 
April 7, 2022
GUNNISON After a months-long search that drew dozens of candidates from around the nation, the Board of Trustees of Western Colorado University last Friday selected William Bradley (Brad) Baca, as the...
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Two new members join Ridgway council
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Two new members join Ridgway council
By Erin McIntyre 
April 7, 2022
Ridgway voters have chosen two new members for their town council. Tuesday’s official election results show newcomers J.T. Thomas and Polly Enochs will join the council, and incumbents Terry Schuyler...
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County OKs funding for housing nonprofit
By Liz Teitz 
April 7, 2022
Ouray County will give $10,000 of federal funding to the Home Trust of Ouray County for operations as the nonprofit works to grow its capacity, becoming the first local government to put financial bac...
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Grambley and Schuyler re-elected, Enochs and Thomas elected to council
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Grambley and Schuyler re-elected, Enochs and Thomas elected to council
By News Staff 
April 5, 2022
Unofficial election results in the Ridgway town council election show Terry Schuyler, Kevin Grambley, Polly Enochs and J.T. Thomas have been elected to the council. They received the most votes in th...
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NEWS BRIEFS
By News Staff 
March 28, 2022
Work on U.S. 550 runs through April 8 Motorists should give themselves extra time traveling between Ridgway and Ouray through the end of next week as Colorado Department of Transportation crews perfor...
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Youth development expert to visit county
By Erin McIntyre 
March 28, 2022
Maybe you grew up with classmates who used the word “gay” to describe something they thought was stupid. Or perhaps the boys at school played “smear the queer,” a chase game of keep away and tackling....
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Animal medical program aims to grow
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Animal medical program aims to grow
By Erin McIntyre 
March 28, 2022
As soon as they emptied the can of fish on the ground, Lisa Knight saw the cats pouring out from under the double wide trailer. "There must have been 50 of them," she said. She grabbed five kittens th...
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Ouray tax revenue off to strong start
By Mike Wiggins 
March 28, 2022
Coming off back-to-back record years of sales and lodging tax revenue, the city of Ouray is off to a strong economic start in 2022, which includes receipts from the new excise tax on short-term rental...
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AROUND THE REGION
By News Staff 
March 28, 2022
SILVERTON Congratulations to Tyler George, Dayna Kranker and Jeff Davis on their new roles as trustees on Silverton’s Town Board. Because there were no write-in candidates submitted by the deadline on...
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Brewery owner latest to convert lodging into housing
By Liz Teitz 
March 28, 2022
Erin Eddy hasn’t hidden his frustration with Ouray’s shortage of affordable housing. Last summer, he took to social media and posted a sign outside the Ouray Brewery, attributing the restaurant’s shor...
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CALENDAR & EVENTS
By News Staff 
March 28, 2022
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Every Friday and Saturday morning at 9 a.m. and every Wednesday night at 5:30 p.m. at St. Daniel’s Church, 614 Fifth St., Ouray. Every Thursday and Sunday at 7 p.m. in the sanctu...
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ALWAYS ON THE MOVE
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ALWAYS ON THE MOVE
By Liz Teitz 
March 28, 2022
Editor's note:  This is the fourth profile in an occasional series highlighting those in Ouray County who are struggling to find housing, living in unusual situations or trying to solve the housing pr...
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City to revise accessory dwelling unit rules
By Liz Teitz 
March 28, 2022
The Ouray City Council and Planning Commission plan to revise their accessory dwelling unit regulations, removing two requirements in the hopes of encouraging more people to build the units for long-t...
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Halt on marijuana grows to be extended
By Carolina Brown 
March 23, 2022
Ouray County commissioners plan to extend a moratorium on new marijuana cultivation licenses in the county for another six months after their fourth work session on reworking the county’s marijuana or...
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State of the River offers mixed outlook
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State of the River offers mixed outlook
By Mike Wiggins 
March 23, 2022
An above-average snowpack so far this winter is good news for water users in the Gunnison River Basin, but area reservoir levels are expected to remain well below average into the summer and the long-...
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Ouray OKs loan, rate hike for new sewer plant
By Mike Wiggins 
March 23, 2022
The city of Ouray has been approved for a loan of up to $18.5 million to pay for the construction of a new wastewater treatment plant, even as officials acknowledged the loan amount and potential inte...
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CALENDAR & EVENTS
By News Staff 
March 23, 2022
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Every Friday and Saturday morning at 9 a.m. and every Wednesday night at 5:30 p.m. at St. Daniel’s Church, 614 Fifth St., Ouray. Every Thursday and Sunday at 7 p.m. in the sanctu...
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Ridgway girls run down state title
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Ridgway girls run down state title
Young team blows past competition to hoist Class 2A cross country trophy
By By Matt Meyer Special to the Plaindealer 
November 5, 2025
There isn’t a perfect translation for “hill” in Chinese. That's something Natasha Hessler discovered when she arrived at the famous creek crossing during the Colorado State Cross Country Championship ...
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Underwood elected mayor
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ELECTION 2025
Underwood elected mayor
Hart joins council, which needs to fill two spots
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
November 5, 2025
Ouray City Councilor Michael Underwood won election to the mayor’s seat Tuesday night, succeeding on a campaign that emphasized fiscal conservatism and a vow to fix what he perceives as a disconnect b...
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Property tax hikes pass for cemetery, fire districts
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
November 5, 2025
Voters Tuesday night approved tax increases for the Cedar Hill Cemetery District and the Ouray Fire Protection District. A measure to increase the cemetery district’s mill levy from 0.33 mills to 1 mi...
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ELECTION 2025
Voters approve new county lodging tax
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
November 5, 2025
Voters in unincorporated Ouray County approved a new 6% lodging tax that is expected to provide more than $182,000 in additional funding during a tight 2026 budget year and into the future. The measur...
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ELECTION 2025
Fagrelius, Meruelo win school board seats
By Erin McIntyre erin@ouraynews.com 
November 5, 2025
Ouray voters have chosen two former educators to join the Ouray School Board, according to unofficial results from Tuesday’s election. Three candidates competed for two open seats on the school board,...
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