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State funding fuels housing proposals
By Liz Teitz 
December 23, 2021
A second Ridgway development project has received a Colorado Community Revitalization Grant from the state, while a major Ouray development has received a loan from the State Housing Board to purchase...
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Ouray to set another sales tax revenue record
By Mike Wiggins 
December 23, 2021
The city of Ouray will end 2021 hauling in a record amount of sales tax revenue for the second year in a row. The city this month raked in more than $246,000 in receipts from October sales, an 8% incr...
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County discusses goals, role of publicist
By Carolina Brown 
December 23, 2021
Nine months after hiring the county's first full-time public information officer, commissioners met with her to discuss the roles and responsibilities of the position. Jennifer Peterson was hired in M...
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The trouble with Mind Springs
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The trouble with Mind Springs
By Susan Greene 
December 23, 2021
Editor's note: The Ouray County Plaindealer is publishing this story about mental health issues as part of the Colorado News Collaborative, or COLab, the nonprofit that unites more than 160 communiti...
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Trailer burns on CR22A
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Trailer burns on CR22A
By News Staff 
December 22, 2021
A mobile home on County Road 22A burned this morning and is a total loss. The home was fully engulfed in flames when members of the Log Hill Volunteer Fire Department, the Montrose Fire Department, t...
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CALENDAR & EVENTS
By News Staff 
December 16, 2021
ART SHOW: Ouray County Community Art Show at the Ridgway Library during normal hours. Nov. 12 through Jan. 12. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Every Friday and Saturday morning at 9 a.m. and every Wednesday nig...
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Uptick in testing, cases likely to continue
Covid
Uptick in testing, cases likely to continue
By Erin McIntyre 
December 16, 2021
Ouray County is continuing to see an increase in demand for COVID testing and increased infection rates – with a 12.1% positivity rate as of Tuesday. The increased number of cases and need for testing...
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Ridgway man arrested in fatal crash
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Ridgway man arrested in fatal crash
By Erin Mcintyre And Liz Teitz 
December 16, 2021
A Ridgway man has been arrested in a case stemming from a fatal accident in September in Wyoming. Barrie Bloom, 68, was arrested at his home at 1030 Charles St., on a warrant from Rock Springs, for al...
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Public right-of-way on CR17 protected
By Carolina Brown 
December 16, 2021
Ouray County Attorney Leo Caselli and Commissioner Lynn Padgett successfully lobbied the State Board of Land Commissioners to formally recognize designated public rights-of-way on County Road 17 last ...
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POLICE LOG
By News Staff 
December 16, 2021
The following is a summary of cases the Ridgway Marshal's Office handled from Nov. 29-Dec. 12. If you have information on any of the below active cases or of any other incident that you have informati...
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Business owner fills Ouray School Board vacancy
By Carolina Brown 
December 16, 2021
The Ouray School Board has selected local business owner and Ouray graduate Tom Fedel to fill an open seat. The board met in a special meeting Dec. 9 to interview three candidates for the opening. Fed...
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AROUND THE REGION
By News Staff 
December 16, 2021
GUNNISON The Gunnison Watershed School District has released a plan to drop its mask mandate that could make indoor masks voluntary in early 2022, if conditions are met. Developed with Gunnison County...
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Sex assault trial continued
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Sex assault trial continued
By Erin McIntyre 
December 16, 2021
A trial for a local businessman accused of sexual assault has been postponed again, extending the three-year-old case into 2022. The latest delay came after new details surfaced in the case, which ste...
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State requires schools to raise taxes
By Liz Teitz 
December 16, 2021
Both Ouray County school districts will be required by the state to begin increasing their mill levies annually for the next nine years under a mandate to reverse previous mill levy reductions. Ouray ...
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A SLICK PARTNERSHIP
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A SLICK PARTNERSHIP
By Mike Wiggins 
December 16, 2021
Brian Briggs remembers the Ouray Silver Mines’ relationship with local ice climbing guides being as cold as the sheets of frozen water that beckoned to climbers up County Road 361. Mine employees and...
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With trio of events, park poised for biggest season ever
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With trio of events, park poised for biggest season ever
By Mike Wiggins 
December 16, 2021
As far as beginnings go, it’s not how Peter O’Neil would have scripted it. High temperatures reaching the 50s and overnight lows hovering in the 30s deep into November in Ouray simply don’t allow for...
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Avalanche mitigation work to close U.S. 550 for several hours
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Avalanche mitigation work to close U.S. 550 for several hours
By News Staff 
December 10, 2021
Motorists brave enough to try to navigate U.S. Highway 550 over Red Mountain Pass today should expect several hours' worth of delays. The Colorado Department of Transportation announced just before 8 ...
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County to add 4 full-time employees in 2022
By Carolina Brown 
December 9, 2021
Ouray County will add four new full-time employees in 2022, in the annual budget approved unanimously by commissioners on Tuesday. With increased projected revenues from both property and sales taxes,...
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Ouray extends RV permit program
By Liz Teitz 
December 9, 2021
Ouray will continue to allow local workers to camp in recreational vehicles in the city through next November, though only one employer used the program last summer. The City Council voted unanimously...
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CALENDAR & EVENTS
By News Staff 
December 9, 2021
ART SHOW: Ouray County Community Art Show at the Ridgway Library during normal hours. Nov. 12 through Jan. 12. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Every Friday and Saturday morning at 9 a.m. and every Wednesday nig...
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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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