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Opinion
OURAY COUNTY LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
October 13, 2022
50 YEARS AGO October 12, 1972 - Ouray County retail sales jumped from $407,000 to $617,000 for a whopping 51.6% increase over the same period in 1971, according to figures released by the Business Res...
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Let’s not screw up this chance to reduce climate threat
Opinion
Let’s not screw up this chance to reduce climate threat
By News Staff 
September 28, 2022
“In golden September with bright sunny days / The sky is clear and blue / The bee’s in the clover / Although summer’s over / I love September / Don’t you?” — A song from my childhood played in my mind...
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Our subscription rates are changing. Here’s why
Opinion
Our subscription rates are changing. Here’s why
By News Staff 
September 21, 2022
Everything costs more these days. We've all seen fuel surcharges added for delivery, trash pickup and other services. Increased fees for restaurant tabs, sometimes for food cost increases or to boost...
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Opinion
Advocate supports crime victims
By News Staff 
September 15, 2022
Dear Editor: In light of the recent sexual assault trial against John Warren, owner of Red Mountain Brewing here in Ouray, we think it is important that folks living in our community be aware of a loc...
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Opinion
CORRECTION
By News Staff 
September 8, 2022
An article published on Page 1 of the Sept. 1-7 edition of the Plaindealer about the Ridgway Fire Protection District should have included Capt. Tom Sisler and Lt. Adam Kunz as officers serving the vo...
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Opinion
OURAY COUNTY LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
September 8, 2022
50 YEARS AGO September 7, 1972 - There has been a noticeable increase in interest and competition at the Ouray County Fair the past two years. This year, the growing interest was reflected by the larg...
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Opinion
Story Hour a success
By News Staff 
September 1, 2022
Dear Editor: The Ouray Public Library would like to thank our community, staff, and volunteers for an overwhelmingly successful Drag Queen Story Hour. With the help of our amazing community, we were a...
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Opinion
OURAY COUNTY LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
September 1, 2022
50 YEARS AGO August 31, 1972 - It’s here! Ouray’s county ambulance is in town and ready to go. The brand-new Chevrolet Sentinel ambulance is an attractive bright orange and white, equipped with positr...
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Opinion
Federal legislation needed to prevent suicides, support care
By News Staff 
September 1, 2022
Dear Editor: September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. As a volunteer advocate with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, I am calling on my members of Congress to pass legis...
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Opinion
Teaching to throw off norms counter to safe self-expression
By News Staff 
September 1, 2022
Dear Editor: While my opinion and world view hasn’t changed drastically as an adult, over the years I have adopted a coping mechanism of self-censorship in order to live peacefully with people who do ...
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Opinion
Celebrate the library
By News Staff 
September 1, 2022
Dear Editor: I celebrate our Ouray Public Library and the wonderful variety of services and programs it offers us! Ann Dettmer Ouray
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In Ouray and Midwest, it’s water, water everywhere
Opinion
In Ouray and Midwest, it’s water, water everywhere
By News Staff 
August 24, 2022
Summer is vanishing. Sunny days grow perceptibly shorter, nights cooler and longer, outdoor chores clamor for attention, school days begin. Rain and fog breathe autumn. By the second week of August, c...
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Opinion
OURAY COUNTY LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
August 18, 2022
50 YEARS AGO August 17, 1972 - A Moab, Utah man was fined $250 in U.S. Magistrate Court in Montrose on Aug. 10 for unauthorized road construction within the Uncompahgre National Forest of Colorado. Da...
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Opinion
OURAY COUNTY LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
August 11, 2022
August 10, 1972 - Kathleen Evans, 28, of Norman, Oklahoma died Tuesday afternoon as a result of injuries sustained early that morning while she attempted to rescue her 3-year-old son from a runaway Je...
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Opinion
LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
August 4, 2022
50 YEARS AGO August 3, 1972 - Used to be the only place you saw naked ladies in public around here was hanging over a bar here and there. Not these days. In the last week there have been several sight...
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Opinion
LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
July 28, 2022
50 YEARS AGO July 27, 1972 - Any significant increase in snowpack in the San Juan Mountains by cloud seeding will retard growth of some non-woody plants and could cause starvation among small animals....
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Marie Scott, Ridgway’s ranching royalty
Opinion
Marie Scott, Ridgway’s ranching royalty
By Carolyn Snowbarger 
July 21, 2022
Marie Scott (1896-1979) owned land (lots of it). She was a local rancher whose holdings stretched from Ridgway all the way into southeastern Utah. Long-time residents describe her as a land baron, a f...
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Opinion
LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
July 21, 2022
50 YEARS AGO July 20, 1972 - Wednesday afternoon about three o’clock, a truck tire tried to enter the Mary Lawrence home by the window. It broke the window, and although it didn’t enter the room, a gr...
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Opinion
LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
July 7, 2022
50 YEARS AGO July 6, 1972 - Editorial: July 4, 1972 in Ouray has to have been a landmark celebration as one of the best in a great many years. Old-timers have commented there’s never been better parad...
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Opinion
CLARIFICATION
By News Staff 
June 30, 2022
A story in the June 23-29 Plaindealer should have said Ouray County Assessor Susie Mayfield left the Republican Party after being told she could not support a non-Republican candidate for sheriff in t...
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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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News
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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