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The farm animals are doing just fine, thank you
Opinion
The farm animals are doing just fine, thank you
By News Staff 
January 1, 2020
ERIN STADELMAN As I look outside the window today, the snow is falling ever so slightly. It is just enough to cover up the dirt of the driveway and make the vehicles on the highway seem to be moving a...
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Opinion
Are you driving impaired?
By News Staff 
December 18, 2019
TROOPER TIPS How often do you ask yourself if you are driving impaired? I know you’re asking why you would ask yourself that if you are not drinking. But are you actually impaired and don’t realize it...
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Help us produce good journalism in 2020
Opinion
Help us produce good journalism in 2020
By News Staff 
December 4, 2019
FROM THE PUBLISHER Even small places deserve good journalism. That was one of our mantras when we decided to purchase the Plaindealer. Since the two of us took on the jobs of publishers, editors, repo...
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‘Tis the season for fighting the unwinnable battle
Opinion
‘Tis the season for fighting the unwinnable battle
By News Staff 
December 4, 2019
The season of winter is well upon us these days. I do love the snow. It covers up all the stuff you have in your yard that you didn’t have time to put away before the snow came. All the hay meadows ar...
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Opinion
Editorial: In its most important decision, town council fails on transparency
By News Staff 
November 20, 2019
  In the past few months of attending Ridgway Town Council meetings, we’ve had the opportunity to hear robust public discussion on topics ranging from water rate structures to the ethical reasons for ...
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Informed voters make the best voters
Opinion
Informed voters make the best voters
By News Staff 
October 30, 2019
FROM THE PUBLISHER Six years ago, a Front Range billionaire delivered $5,000 checks to each of three conservative candidates for the School District 51 Board of Education in Mesa County. The teachers’...
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Opinion
Referendum 1A provides necessary dollars for essential road network
By News Staff 
October 30, 2019
Dear Editor: The nearly 300 miles of roads located within both the unincorporated and incorporated territory of Ouray County are a small but essential transportation network that serves not only the l...
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Opinion
CORRECTIONS
By News Staff 
September 5, 2019
A story on Page 2 of the Aug. 29 edition, “Commissioners consider sunset in tax question,” incorrectly stated the amount by which residential property taxes would increase if a 3.7 mill levy increase ...
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Opinion
LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
August 15, 2019
From the Ouray County Herald and Ouray County Plaindealer: 50 Years Ago August 14, 1969 - (advertisement) $100 reward for information leading to positive identification of person or persons who: 1. Br...
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Opinion
CORRECTION
By News Staff 
August 7, 2019
A story on Page 1 in the Aug. 1-8 edition incorrectly stated new Wright Opera House Executive Director Alyssa Preston is managing the capital campaign for the building. The campaign is being managed b...
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Whether rider or driver, safety is paramount
Opinion
Whether rider or driver, safety is paramount
By News Staff 
July 31, 2019
TROOPER TIPS According to the meteorologists it is now officially summer. So that means there will be a lot more motorcycles on our roadways. So that is this month’s topic. I was a motor officer for t...
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Time to change the station with some of this ranch music
Opinion
Time to change the station with some of this ranch music
By News Staff 
July 31, 2019
“The hills are alive with the sound of music With songs they have sung for a thousand years The hills fill my heart with the sound of music My heart wants to sing every song it hears”. These are the w...
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A new law worth reading up on
Opinion
A new law worth reading up on
By News Staff 
July 17, 2019
Shh ... Have you visited your local library lately? If you haven’t, you may want to check out some of the many things you can do there. Besides great books, movies, music, internet, and computer acces...
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Our only agenda: the truth
Opinion
Our only agenda: the truth
By News Staff 
July 10, 2019
FROM THE PUBLISHER As new publishers, we find folks want to know where we stand on things. What’s your plan for the newspaper? Are you going to print stories or letters about this or that? Will you wr...
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Opinion
Plenty of hardy plants flourishing in this chilly, wet spring
By News Staff 
June 24, 2019
By Karen Risch It’s amazing to observe what grows in Ouray, a city of just a thousand people, living and working at an elevation of 7,500 - 8,400 feet. This hardy town lies in a sloping mountain bowl ...
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Opinion
Here’s to our 142nd birthday — and to taking risks
By Mike Wiggins 
June 24, 2019
by Mike Wiggins Lamar Wiggins hated risk. His aversion to it — coupled with his fear of an array of things — defined his life and, by extension, that of his family. A fear of heights meant when we tra...
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July 2, 2025
Carrie Ann Mund, left, dances with Tawnya Schiebel during the Mariachi de San Jose band’s performance in Ridgway’s Hartwell Park on June 29. The band performed as part of the fifth annual Fete de la M...
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Leaders object to public lands sale
Conservationists, ranchers, elected officials decry bill, though battle over federal property may return
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
July 2, 2025
Recent federal proposals to sell or develop Ouray County’s public lands would harm the county’s economy, identity and culture of ranching and public recreation, according to county officials and other...
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Sex assault trial moved to Montrose
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
July 2, 2025
A judge has ordered the trial of a man accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl in 2023 to be moved from Ouray to Montrose. Seventh Judicial Chief District Judge Cory Jackson approved the tri...
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Celebrating the Fourth in Ouray? Load up on sunscreen, patience, courtesy
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Celebrating the Fourth in Ouray? Load up on sunscreen, patience, courtesy
Private security to help with traffic, parking, so law enforcement can be more proactive
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
July 2, 2025
The sights and sounds of the Fourth of July in Ouray are ubiquitous. The powerful spray of fire hoses. The shrieks of kids racing through Fellin Park. Cheers and honking horns on Main Street. This yea...
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New weapons policy would ban public, allow employees to conceal carry
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
July 2, 2025
County leaders are debating a new policy that would ban the public from carrying any weapons within Ouray County buildings but allow county employees with valid permits to conceal carry weapons in mos...
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