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Opinion
Schools seek revenue on top of revenue
By News Staff 
September 30, 2021
Dear Editor: According to the May, 2021 Notice of Valuation from the county assessor’s office my property taxes due in 2022 went up approximately 15% (if the mill levy remains the same). The revenue f...
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Opinion
Comment now on draft forest plan
By News Staff 
September 30, 2021
Dear Editor: The Grand Mesa-Uncompahgre-Gunnison National Forest released its draft forest plan and draft Environmental Impact Statement on Aug. 13, which opened the 90-day comment period. The forest ...
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Opinion
A cowardly cartoon
By News Staff 
September 30, 2021
Dear Editor: I would like to redress the political cartoon published in last week’s Opinion section. In the era through which we are currently passing; one of constitutional fragility fraught with pol...
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Opinion
Let’s go to bat for Ridgway kids by supporting bond issue, mill levy
By News Staff 
September 30, 2021
Dear Editor: I would like to encourage the Ridgway community to join me in voting for 4A and 4B—two questions on the upcoming ballot proposed by the Ridgway School District (RSD). The two initiatives ...
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Yee-haw! Let’s celebrate history with Old West Fest
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Yee-haw! Let’s celebrate history with Old West Fest
By Carolyn Snowbarger 
September 8, 2021
Ridgway, our little mountain town, is known for many things – our San Juan Mountains, the home of the Grammy, and a vibrant art community. Our town’s history is equally broad – ranching, trains, and m...
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Joy of Purpose: A rabble rouser and a helper
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Joy of Purpose: A rabble rouser and a helper
By Alexandra Mitchell Jeff Pryor 
September 8, 2021
Dolgio Nergui came to Colorado with a goal of becoming a ski bum, but she instead joined a community where she found a desire to help others in the outdoors. Dolgio is originally from Mongolia and cam...
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There are Real Cowboys — and then there are the others
Opinion
There are Real Cowboys — and then there are the others
By Erin Stadelman 
September 1, 2021
I was raised in a small, dairy city called Chino in California. There were cows around — you could surely smell their presence, especially on a warm morning. (That is a column for another day.) The da...
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Is this summer’s weather the best we can hope for?
Opinion
Is this summer’s weather the best we can hope for?
By News Staff 
August 25, 2021
It’s been a smoky, unusually hot, but relatively moist summer in Ouray. Luckily for us, though, we have experienced nothing remotely like the climate disasters (horrific megafires, record-smashing hig...
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From Joy to an Angel: the story of some special horses
Opinion
From Joy to an Angel: the story of some special horses
By News Staff 
August 18, 2021
In 1983 and 1984, I trained a cutting horse named Sonitas Joy. We won $320,000 in a year and a half. Her owner decided to retire her and breed her. Since she was such an exceptional mare, stallion own...
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Butch Cassidy: Telluride’s world-famous outlaw
Opinion
Butch Cassidy: Telluride’s world-famous outlaw
By Carolyn Snowbarger 
August 11, 2021
Warning! This is a history-lite column: some undisputed facts along with a few rumors and legends. Historians and writers agree that Butch Cassidy lived and worked in the mining boomtown Telluride, an...
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Joy of Purpose: The student becomes the teacher
Opinion
Joy of Purpose: The student becomes the teacher
By Alexandra Mitchell Jeff Pryor 
August 11, 2021
Decades ago, Trisha Oakland took acting classes at the Sherbino Theater. She was an elementary school student at the time, growing up in Ridgway. Now, as the director of programs for the theater and W...
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Beware the summer monsoon in Ouray
Opinion
Beware the summer monsoon in Ouray
By Karen Risch 
July 28, 2021
Thunder rumbles. It’s 78 degrees outside at midday, Ouray’s average July high. This monsoon weather dims the memory of an anomalously warm June (days 4.9 degrees above average, nights 4.3) and July (d...
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Time to release body cam video
Opinion
Time to release body cam video
By News Staff 
July 21, 2021
By the time you read this, at least 59 days will have passed since Montrose resident Luther Medina died in Dexter Creek Canyon after being pulled over by Ouray Police Officer Brady Suppeland. We stil...
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Opinion
CORRECTION
By News Staff 
July 15, 2021
A story on Page 1 in the July 8-14 edition should have said the Ouray City Council in 2019 began subjecting to short-term regulations properties leased for less than 30 days.
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Opinion
Great visit tinged by disappointment
By News Staff 
July 15, 2021
Dear Editor: My family and I spent the most memorable 4th of July of my life in your amazing town. Thank you, Ouray! One of the highlights was the water fight with bonafide fire hoses. We were fascina...
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Opinion
LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
July 15, 2021
50 YEARS AGO July 15, 1971 - A major piece of business was transacted in the Ouray City Council meeting Monday night that may effect a considerable change in the appearance of Ouray’s business distric...
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Opinion
Thanks from McElrea family
By News Staff 
July 15, 2021
Dear Editor: On behalf of the entire family of Paul McElrea, we would like to extend our deepest gratitude to the friends who helped search for our beloved Paul and the Ouray County professionals, in ...
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A hazy reminder of vulnerability
Opinion
A hazy reminder of vulnerability
By Erin McIntyre 
July 15, 2021
We’ve reached the time in summer when we play a game I don’t like much. The “where’s that smoke coming from” game. The haze first brings grayish skies, muddying our views of the spectacular mountain v...
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Missing Ridgway man victim of fatal accident
Opinion
Missing Ridgway man victim of fatal accident
By Erin McIntyre 
July 7, 2021
A search for a missing Ridgway man ended tragically on Wednesday morning after his body was found at the scene of a motorcycle accident. Paul McElrea, 52, had left home before midnight on Monday and d...
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Santa Fe Trail: The Great Plains Highway
Opinion
Santa Fe Trail: The Great Plains Highway
By Carolyn Snowbarger 
July 7, 2021
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Santa Fe Trail (1821-2021). This commercial route connected Missouri and Santa Fe and was an “international highway” used by travelers, settlers, freighter...
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Ridgway hotel to convert to housing
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Ridgway hotel to convert to housing
MTN Lodge owner: Change needed to sustain operations; town leaders worried
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
September 10, 2025
Ridgway’s largest hotel plans to convert to construction and hotel workforce housing for a new Four Seasons development in Mountain Village for at least the next four years. MTN Lodge signed an agreem...
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With federal funds in limbo, Ouray seeks options to reduce wildfire danger
News
With federal funds in limbo, Ouray seeks options to reduce wildfire danger
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
September 10, 2025
Ouray city leaders are exploring other ways to address dead, fallen trees littering neighborhoods and hillsides now that it's unclear when a large-scale, federally funded wildfire mitigation project w...
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News
Interim police chief retained through Dec. 31
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
September 10, 2025
Ouray City Administrator Michelle Metteer has extended the contract of Interim Police Chief Daric Harvey through the end of the year. Harvey was hired as the interim chief in March, replacing Sgt. Gar...
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City to hear public input on wayfinding sign solutions
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City to hear public input on wayfinding sign solutions
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
September 10, 2025
The Ouray City Council will hold a work session Monday to discuss possible solutions to concerns raised by residents and business owners about new wayfinding signs installed along Main Street earlier ...
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Letters, Opinion...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Article about Space to Create too negative
September 10, 2025
Dear Editor: The origin and theory behind the Space To Create movement is tied to the common phenomenon where creative individuals, looking for affordable and functional space, move into semi-industri...
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