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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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Opinion
LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
June 30, 2022
50 YEARS AGO June 29, 1972 - Mark Higgs, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Higgs of Fordyce, Arkansas, fell about 275 feet to his death, down the steep canyon wall near Bear Creek Falls two miles south of ...
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Opinion
LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
June 23, 2022
50 YEARS AGO June 22, 1972 - Fortunately, only inanimate objects and plants were in the path of a runaway truck in a residential area at the south side of Ouray on Friday morning last week. Henry Dams...
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Opinion
LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
June 13, 2022
50 YEARS AGO June 15, 1972 - June 10th, Saturday night, a large “Woodsy Park” was broken up by State Patrolman Wally Ogden, Undersheriff Frank Merling and Sheriff Art Dougherty. Names of about 33 youn...
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Opinion
LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
June 9, 2022
50 YEARS AGO June 8, 1972 - Wednesday, May 31, a 14-year-old runaway from Tinley Park, Illinois was surprised while robbing a motor home at the Amphitheater Campground. The owners of the motor home, t...
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Opinion
LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
June 2, 2022
50 YEARS AGO June 1, 1972 - Pamela (Pam) Larson daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al Fedel of Ouray, was awarded an engineering degree at the 98th Annual Commencement Ceremonies at the Colorado School of Mines...
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Ouray County schools celebrate graduation, with Ouray School graduating 12, Ridgway Secondary School graduating 20 students in the class of 2026
May 27, 2026
Ouray School graduation, photos by Erin McIntyre – Ouray County Plaindealer Ridgway Secondary School graduation, photos by Erin McIntyre – Ouray County Plaindealer
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Governments push for better transit service
County, city, town want OurWay shuttle to run more frequently, be more user-friendly
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
May 27, 2026
Ouray County’s three local governments are calling for the OurWay shuttle to run more often and become more user-friendly. Local government leaders want the Montrose-to-Ouray service to run at least s...
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County denies permit for disc golf tourney
Log Hill neighbors complain about impacts; property owners claim they were 'trying to take the right steps'
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
May 27, 2026
Ouray County commissioners on Tuesday denied a permit for a disc golf tournament on residential properties on Log Hill Mesa, after hearing further complaints from the public. Land Use Department staff...
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Citizens petition city to pave Oak Street
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
May 27, 2026
A group of residents has petitioned the city of Ouray to pave Oak Street, claiming the work is needed to control dust, accommodate increased traffic and preserve an important thoroughfare for resident...
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Award-winning ‘Lord of the Rings’ parody comes to Ouray
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Award-winning ‘Lord of the Rings’ parody comes to Ouray
'Fly, You Fools!' plays at the Wright Opera House Friday-Monday
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
May 27, 2026
You know the lines. Or at least you’ve seen the memes — and the myriad spinoffs of them. “One does not simply walk into Mordor.” “One ring to rule them all.” “What about second breakfast?” “You shall ...
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