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Opinion
LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
November 19, 2020
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...
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Opinion
LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
November 12, 2020
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...
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Opinion
LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
November 5, 2020
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...
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Opinion
LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
October 29, 2020
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...
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Opinion
LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
October 22, 2020
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...
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Opinion
LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
October 15, 2020
50 YEARS AGO October 15,197o - The spark of life breathed back into narrow gauge railroading in the Rocky Mountain West earlier this year is beginning to dim. Although no one is giving up hope, the ou...
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Opinion
Stock market gained more under Obama than Trump
By News Staff 
October 15, 2020
Dear Editor: One of the leading issues in this election is the economy. Trump often brags that he has been responsible for the greatest economy in the history of our country. He often denigrates the e...
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Opinion
It’s time to let the Regional Service Authority tax expire
By News Staff 
October 15, 2020
Dear Editor: We agree there are benefits to having medical providers in Ouray County. We also understand that the medical provider at Mountain Medical Center (MMC) is highly regarded by his patients, ...
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Opinion
Elections team takes jobs — and your votes — seriously
By News Staff 
October 15, 2020
Dear Editor, We are part of the Ouray County bi-partisan elections team responsible for processing your ballots. We are well-trained, and are required to follow state regulations to make sure every el...
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We mean what we say
Opinion
We mean what we say
By Erin Mcintyre And Mike Wiggins 
October 7, 2020
Yes, we mean it. We have a letters policy and we’re sticking to it. Even during election season. Especially during election season. There’s a reason for our policy - we want to be consistent and fair...
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No matter the quality offence, be good neighbors
Opinion
No matter the quality offence, be good neighbors
By Erin Stadelman 
September 30, 2020
There is an older country Western song with a very well-known line in it that advises, “Don’t fence me in.” I believe the point of the song is to convey a need to roam free and choose one’s own path. ...
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Opinion
Isolation not realistic
By News Staff 
September 10, 2020
Dear Editor: In a recent opinion piece, John Mitchell, the chairman of the Ouray County Republican Party, stated that, as his premise, "[t]hus, if people follow the first guideline about isolating whe...
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Opinion
Leadership valued
By News Staff 
September 10, 2020
Dear Editor: On behalf of our family, we want to express our sincerest appreciation for the steady and capable leadership Ridgway School District board, superintendent, administration, and faculty hav...
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Opinion
Thanks to skillful, swift rescuers
By News Staff 
September 10, 2020
Dear Editor: On Thursday, Sept. 3, a group of four "gal" friends and I embarked on a backcountry hike on an unmaintained, come-and-go pack trail. While returning, one of the gals (Jen) took a fall on ...
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Opinion
LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
September 10, 2020
5O YEARS AGO September 10, 1970 - The Uncompahgre River was as swift and at as high a flood stage as anyone can remember seeing it, as it tore down the valley Saturday night, ripping out a levee at Po...
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Opinion
Facts and their importance
By News Staff 
September 10, 2020
Dear Editor: According to the Oxford Dictionary, a fact is known or proved to be true. The truth about events as opposed to interpretation. Connie Wurst's letter to the editor, "Citizens have paid the...
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Opinion
Thankful for nourished minds, bodies
By News Staff 
September 10, 2020
Dear Editor, Now that the kids are all back in school here in Ouray, I have had a moment to sit back and reflect on the happenings since everything shut down nearly six months ago in March. Yes, thing...
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Opinion
LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
September 3, 2020
SO YEARS AGO September 3, 1970 - The Plaindealer was informed this week of an accident that occurred August 15 in Ouray which was reported to be hit and run. No report was made of the accident in the ...
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Opinion
LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
August 27, 2020
50 YEARS AGO August 27, 1970 - Ouray will have one-hour parking limits for the same four-block distance on the west side of Main Street as presently exist on the east side. Traffic and parking problem...
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Everything’s great – except for that old coot in the mirror
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Everything’s great – except for that old coot in the mirror
By Willie Richardson 
August 20, 2020
I'm a retired horse trainer living in my beloved childhood home town of Ridgway. The national forests are my playground and every day is a holiday. I have a wonderful wife, Sandy, and I've got countle...
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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
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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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