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Medical Center upgrades planned
By News Staff 
March 17, 2022
Ouray County’s Regional Services Authority, which owns and oversees the Mountain Medical Center building, plans to spend almost $50,000 on exterior improvements. The board voted Tuesday to accept a pr...
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County seeks long-term facility plans
By Carolina Brown 
March 17, 2022
Ouray County commissioners are expected to look for a consultant to develop a long-term facility-needs plan after they toured buildings and saw major problems with county Road and Bridge facilities an...
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Ridgway developer gets 7th extension
By Liz Teitz 
March 17, 2022
Ridgway Town Council voted to give a seventh twoyear extension to complete the Ridgway Industrial Park, where developers say they hope to begin work this month. Owner Glenn Pauls wrote to Town Adminis...
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State offering grants to reduce bear conflicts
By Mike Wiggins 
March 17, 2022
As bears begin their early spring emergence from hibernation on the Western Slope, Colorado Parks and Wildlife is offering up to $1 million in grants to help reduce conflicts between the animals and h...
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OURAY COUNTY AND CORONAVIRUS — A TIMELINE OF THE MAJOR MILESTONES OF THE LAST TWO YEARS
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OURAY COUNTY AND CORONAVIRUS — A TIMELINE OF THE MAJOR MILESTONES OF THE LAST TWO YEARS
By News Staff 
March 17, 2022
With this month marking the two-year anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we thought it worthwhile to revisit noteable dates and events, turning points and landmarks as they occurred in...
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CALENDAR & EVENTS
By News Staff 
March 17, 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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THE PANDEMIC AT 2
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THE PANDEMIC AT 2
By Liz Teitz 
March 17, 2022
As he began a monthly multi-agency command meeting last week, Ouray County Emergency Manager Glenn Boyd paused before launching into the agenda. “March 5 marked our two-year anniversary of being invo...
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COVID: By the numbers
By News Staff 
March 17, 2022
Cases : 845 Hospitalizations : 23 Deaths among cases : 6 Outbreaks : 8 Vaccinations : 68.9% of residents 5 and older “fully vaccinated” (two Moderna or Pfizer or 1 Johnson and Johnson)
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AROUND THE REGION
By News Staff 
March 17, 2022
SILVERTON A movement continues to build in town to classify Silverton as a “Dark Sky Community.” Dark Sky sites signify that an area has either reduced or no light pollution from artificial lights, ei...
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County narrows plans for federal funds
By Liz Teitz 
March 17, 2022
Ouray County, which is set to receive almost $1 million from the American Rescue Plan Act, is planning to spend the first of those dollars on a fiber infrastructure project at the Land Use facility. A...
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Ouray ditches plan to install water meters
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Ouray ditches plan to install water meters
By Mike Wiggins 
March 9, 2022
The city of Ouray will abandon plans to purchase and install water meters throughout the city for the time being, citing the impending construction of new sewer and water treatment plants as greater p...
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CALENDAR & EVENTS
By News Staff 
March 9, 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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County races may lack competition
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County races may lack competition
By Mike Wiggins And Liz Teitz 
March 9, 2022
Republicans and Democrats gathered at local precinct caucuses across Ouray County on Saturday to elect members to their party’s central committees and serve as delegates at the county assemblies late...
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CORRECTION
By News Staff 
March 9, 2022
A story on Page 3 in the March 3-9 edition incorrectly indicated nobody from the Ponderosa Village neighborhood spoke during public comment during the Ouray County commissioners’ meeting Feb. 23. Pond...
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State of the River March 16
By News Staff 
March 9, 2022
The Colorado River District and the Ouray County Water Users Association will host a Ouray County State of the River meeting at the Ouray County 4-H Center in Ridgway next week. The free event runs fr...
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HAVE YOU HERD?
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HAVE YOU HERD?
By News Staff 
March 9, 2022
A herd of elk graze in a field just off County Road 24 west of Ridgway on Tuesday evening. The deadline to submit applications for big game hunting limited-license draws is April 5, according to Color...
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Sheriff’s office building trust, operating at ‘deficit’
By Carolina Brown 
March 9, 2022
Almost two years after starting to rebuild the Ouray County Sheriff's Office, Sheriff Justin Perry is continuing to build trust, professionalism and relationships. That was one of his main messages to...
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The question of an authority
By Liz Teitz 
March 9, 2022
The debate over how to make housing more affordable – or even attainable – in Ouray County has been going on for decades. But in the past few years, it has become even more complicated with higher rea...
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Mask mandate dropped in county facilities
By Liz Teitz 
March 9, 2022
Masks are no longer required in Ouray County facilities, after commissioners voted to repeal the mandate in alignment with recent changes from the 7th Judicial District. Masks were previously required...
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County opposes state proposal for Cow Creek
By Carolina Brown And Erin Mcintyre 
March 9, 2022
Ouray County has filed a statement of opposition to the state's proposal for an instream flow water right in Cow Creek, joining the Ouray County Water Users Association and Tri-County Water Conservanc...
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Helping the helpers: The anatomy of a complex rescue
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Helping the helpers: The anatomy of a complex rescue
Volunteers saved an 11-year-old girl from the bottom of a cliff thanks largely to the skills of Mike Gibbs, who's made a career out of training rescuers
By By Nancy Lofholm Special to the Plaindealer 
February 18, 2026
It took Mike Gibbs all of five seconds on that morning in early August to figure out it was time to execute one of the world’s most complicated rope rescues. A car had tumbled 320 feet off the edge of...
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Bills to give reservoir to Ouray debut in Congress
Administrator: City can afford repair expenses, which are still unknown
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
February 18, 2026
U.S. House and Senate bills to transfer ownership of Crystal Reservoir from the U.S. Forest Service to the city of Ouray made it to subcommittee hearings in Washington, D.C. last week. Both bills are ...
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County spurns prairie dog control request
Commissioners say they're unwilling, unable to adopt restrictions; resident withdraws lawsuit threat
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
February 18, 2026
Ouray County leaders last week snuffed a resident’s request to require property owners to control prairie dogs, citing a legal inability and unwillingness to do so. At the start of a Feb. 11 work sess...
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Local Briefs
Ridgway awards visitor services contract to chamber
February 18, 2026
Ridgway will hire the Ridgway Area Chamber of Commerce for $33,824 per year to support town marketing efforts. “RACC expressed confidence in its ability to execute the scope of work, based on many yea...
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Town approves measures to boost housing affordability
By Deb Hurley Brobst Special to the Plaindealer 
February 18, 2026
The Ridgway Town Council approved three measures at its meeting on Feb. 11 to boost affordable housing in the town. Ridgway applying for ADU grant Ridgway is applying for a grant that will allow it to...
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