LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: Each fall when I go to the dam at the end of Crystal Reservoir I see cars parked along Highway 550 with license plates from all over the country. I meet people inclu...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: West Springs Hospital is a catchment mental health hospital for the Western Slope of Colorado. They are the only inpatient psychiatric facility and psychiatric emerge...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: Another fumble at the Ouray Hot Springs Pool. Massage therapy no longer has value as an affordable health/wellness option for patrons, according to Pool Manager Mike ...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: Ouray County is in danger of losing one of its iconic panoramas. The U.S. Forest Service has announced that it will begin drawing down Crystal Reservoir with the poss...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: It is of cold comfort to say that I am grateful my child was never a guest at the home of the police chief. Reread that. It's a statement that shouldn't make sense. A...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: I have spent years supporting sexual assault victims who were forced to bear the brutal weight of legal and social systems immediately upon simply reporting what happ...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Thirty-five years ago, as our tours neared Salzburg, Austria, I used to tell our clients traveling through the Alps by motorcycle of a favorite place and an experience that I had ...

News of gold and silver discoveries brought fortune-seekers to the northern San Juan Mountains in the late 1800s. After the Silver Crash of 1893, gold took over as the primary mineral produced high ab...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: To try and solve Don Carlton’s question about the old signage on the historic barn near Telluride, I did some investigating on my own. In my opinion, I believe the wo...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: I was very pleased to see that the 2024 spending bill keeping the government open included over $1 million for our Corbett Creek Bridge installation. Replacing the b...

Dear Editor: I lived and worked in nine different states during my long life. I enjoyed living in all those places, but Ridgway, Colorado, tops them all! The scenery is spectacular and Ridgway, Ouray ...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: Writing this with a heartache I’ve rarely felt, I want to share that Ridgway lost one of its brightest stars this past week. Communities are rarely blessed with peopl...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: As a full-time resident of Ridgway’s community, I would like to second and thank Jake Niece for expressing frankly his opinions regarding the sexual assault case incl...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: In the Feb. 22-28 edition of the newspaper, the Plaindealer reported that Ouray Police Chief Jeff Wood questioned the credibility of the woman claiming she was raped ...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: Ouray County is in the midst of two sexual assault cases, and I’ve heard a lot of: “trust the judicial process.” I feel a sense of hopelessness with lost faith in the...

Dear Editor: I feel fortunate to have a true news hound, who will not be intimidated, reporting for our local newspaper. Securing public records through open records requests is key to understanding w...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: Many of us drive past Cedar Hill Cemetery and are oblivious to the amount of damage caused by flooding, drought and the shortage of maintenance and upkeep plaguing t...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: On Feb. 21 and 22, the Grand Mesa Uncompaghre and Gunnison National Forest held the final stage of the public engagement for the revised forest plan (known as the obj...

The ominous note came in an envelope with an advertising bill. Instead of payment, the sender included the message on personalized stationery, the kind of notepad one would use for a grocery list or a...

Irony is the juxtaposition of one conceptual proposition with a directly contrary reality, like a “vegetarian butcher” or something that’s “seriously funny.” Or the swift enactment — during Sunshine W...