LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: We spent 25 fine years on Miller Mesa next door to the Faust holding before decamping to Montrose three years ago to age in place; we read with dismay the Plaindealer...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: I am an online subscriber of the Plaindealer who lived in Ouray County and worked in Ouray Schools from 2011-2016. I enjoy reading about the people and places that I ...

50 YEARS AGO November 8, 1973 – The shoe’s on the other foot. Ouray Police Chief Steve Frazier has received a citation for a change. This is, however, the national “Good Samaritan” award made by the A...

Have you been through Chattanooga, Colorado? You have — if you’ve traveled south on U.S. Highway 550. You may not have even noticed this once thriving townsite as you were descending into the high mou...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: On Monday, Oct. 30, I attended the Ouray City Council budget work session. I would like to thank the council for its thoughtful consideration of taking a temporary cr...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: As we head for the holiday season with lots of packages and letters coming and going through the Ridgway post office, I want people to be aware of a troubling inciden...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: Ouray County is currently revising its land use master plan for the first time in 22 years with a target completion date next year. If you are not following this effo...

The year 2023 may be remembered for weather and climate whiplash. In Ouray, the first six months were cold, gray and abnormally wet. As the 10th month closes, the city is on track to end the year in d...

Dear Editor: Proposition II is up for a vote across the state. The increase in tobacco taxes was negotiated to raise funds for a variety of purposes in 2020. How- ever, it turns out, long term evidenc...

Dear Editor: I am writing out of frustration and concern regarding the recent proposals to further restrict short-term rentals in Ouray County. While I wholeheartedly support the idea of fair and bala...

Dear Editor: According to the 2024 preliminary budget for Ouray County, the general fund revenue is expected to increase by $1,004,879, or 53%, as a result of this year’s increase in assessed valuatio...

Dear Editor: Is it too much to suggest that the Ouray Bookshop is Ouray's beating heart? Within its walls it is so much to so many: a repository for local history, a guide to our mountains, a forum fo...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: After attending last week's Board of County Commissioners work session on short-term rental permits, some words seem to be repeated more than others like parties and ...

This year's minimal monsoon made a couple of short appearances this month, but overall just 0.97 inches of rain fell, 48% of the new normal, 2.04 inches. These recent storms sparked dry lightning and ...

As you read this, the first day of meteorological autumn arrives Friday, Sept. 1. Not that the weather will change drastically, but these last few cool mornings and evenings have certainly felt differ...

Amanda Caldwell of Ridgway is bit of a modern-day pioneer woman. She home-schools her four children, she gardens, she knows how to make soap and she whipped up this beautiful, tasty cherry pie and won...

Readers, we owe you an apology. We knew the transition to a new website and a change in our e-edition delivery system and format might be a little bumpy. But I promise we did not know it would be so r...

FROM THE PUBLISHER For those about to blow-dry a 1,200-pound steer, I salute you. To the 4-H Club kids scrambling to finish their record books, I've been there. My years of 4-H helped prepare me for a...

We strive to publish letters that comply with the following terms: • Letters are limited to 400 words and must include a local issue important to those living in Ouray County or the region. • Letters ...

June 2023 was the hottest ever recorded globally, “with record high sea surface temperatures, especially in the Atlantic Ocean. Antarctic sea ice extent at unprecedented low values for the time of yea...