In this business we ask a lot of questions. It’s kind of our job. Sometimes we ask questions that don’t lead to clear answers, and that means we keep digging. At first we might have a blurry idea of w...

Throughout the course of the nearly two years we have owned this newspaper we’ve promised to you that when we get something wrong we’ll correct it — and do so as quickly as possible. Part of building ...

50 YEARS AGO February 4, 1971 - Editorial: President Nixon’s budget text included the message that the cloudseeding project here has provided “roe first opportunity to assess possible social and envir...

50 YEARS AGO January 28, 1971 - If the flu bug bedded you fora few weeks before the end of 197o don’t worry. If your employer kept you on the payroll you have the sympathy of the Internal Revenue Serv...

50 YEARS AGO January 21, 1971 - Television in Ouray and Ridgway leaves a lot to be desired. If Ouray’s booster isn’t out, which is most of the time, there still is only one channel to watch. The repai...

50 YEARS AGO January 14, 1971 - It’s probably never been done before but there’s one sure way to camp in Yankee Boy Basin without fighting waves of tourists. A group of 12 college students from Massac...

50 YEARS AGO January 7, 1971 - Parents can no longer tell their children to “go out and play in the traffic (but watch out for cars)”, at least not as far as Ouray’s sledding areas are concerned. And ...

50 YEARS AGO December 31, 1970 - Many adults saw for the first time Monday night what the young people of Ouray County have achieved in building and maintaining their Youth Center at Ouray. The center...

A story in the Dec. 17-23 edition, “Body cameras not qualified for virus aid reimbursement,” erroneously reported the amount of money left to spend in CARES Act funds. The county has already spent mor...

50 YEARS AGO December 24, 1970 - Though the Ouray City Council had discussed plans to plow all sidewalks of the town with majority approval at its Dec. 7 meeting nothing definite had been decided. Bid...

50 YEARS AGO December 17,1970 - Mrs. Evelyn Bates, Ouray school instructor, has won honorable mention as a Colorado Teacher of the Year for 1971. Mrs. Bates was born in Ouray and raised here. She grad...

50 YEARS AGO December 10,1970 - Plans were made at the Ridgway Town Council meeting Monday night to build an ice-skating rink on school-owned property on the north side of town. Permission had been ob...

50 YEARS AGO December 3,1970 - Two men were seriously hurt in an accident at the Camp Bird Mine, about 5 p.m. Wednesday last week, when an ore slab of about zoo tons fell on them as they worked at the...

When we were on a book tour in New Zealand, we came across a country inn marquee advertising the “Best Muscles in the World,” green-lipped ones. We pulled in. Mussels (not muscles), beer and a band -w...

YEARS AGO November 26,1970 - Dear Editor: Once again its winter in our beautiful town. Winter means snow and snow apparently spells trouble or at least causes problems. I live at the corner of Third A...

50 YEARS AGO November 19,1970 - The Ouray Police Department received a report from the Highlander Center Monday morning that a specially dedicated United States flag, displayed on the laundromat’s wal...

50 YEARS AGO November 12, 1970 - Called “the most intensive ecological study of its kind ever undertaken,” last week the Department of the Interior announced a new phase in the Bureau of Reclamation’s...

YEARS AGO November 5, 1970 - Letter to the Editor: Dear Joyce: I have complaints. You are costing me money! Recent copies of The Plaindealer that have reached us show conclusively that you are violati...

YEARS AGO October 29,1970 - Advertisement: Easy on the dry hards. Certain things have special importance in a woman’s world. A certain blouse. Delicate. Treasured. Feminine, as she herself is feminine...

50 YEARS AGO October 22, 1970 -The Ouray County Sheriff's Office has been plagued with numerous trespass and night-poaching complaints from ranchers and farmers down the valley, who are even worse pla...