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...

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...

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 ...

Dear Editor: I celebrate our Ouray Public Library and the wonderful variety of services and programs it offers us! Ann Dettmer Ouray

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

50 YEARS AGO May 25, 1972 - Hopes to have the new Amphitheater Campground water system in operation by Memorial Day faded this week when pipe and other supplies ordered failed to arrive, reported Walt...

50 YEARS AGO May 18, 1972 - Final authorization has been received on the federal grant to enable Ouray County to buy a new ambulance and retire the Ford station wagon donated by Federal Resources Corp...