I spent most of my first week in Ouray County walking around wide-eyed, overwhelmed by how stunning it is, unable to believe I could somehow, actually, get to live here. I had an idea of where I was h...

Dear Editor: On Aug. 6, john Warren, the owner of Red Mountain Brewing in Ouray, will be arraigned on three counts of sexual assault. He is alleged to have raped a woman who feared violence if she did...

When I was a child, my dad worked on a ranch near Ridgway. He made $150 a month. We were furnished with a house and utilities. The utilities boiled down to coal, and enough electricity to run a radio ...

Dear Editor: I lost my sister, Peg Laughlin, to COVTD-19. She was 91 years old and living in a very nice assisted living facility. She was in great health her whole life and still took long daily walk...

Ouray doesn't often see snow followed by heavy smoke in June, but in this crazy year of coronavirus and more climate weirdness, that is exactly what we got - 2.2 inches of very wet, heavy snow on the ...

Dear Editor: I used to think that The Emperor's New Clothes was a silly story. Based on a bald-faced lie concocted by con men that is so preposterous it's impossible to believe, the emperor, his minis...

Dear Editor, I am so proud of the youth of Ridgway and Ouray. Over the last couple of weeks, young people from our municipalities have organized protests that were well-attended and peaceful. Given th...

50 YEARS AGO June 4, 1970 - At Monday night’s meeting Ouray councilmen passed Ordinance No. 4, Series 1970 on first reading. The or dinance allowing tree planting on streets and avenues of the city of...

Dear Editor, How do we find the truth in times like these? (COVID-19) Certainly not the “Main Stream Media” or our government. Logic is about clear and effective thinking. It’s about testing the authe...

50 YEARS AGO May 28,1970 - The ability to squeeze significantly more snow and rain out of mountain winter storm clouds in now an accepted fact. Work on seeding cumulus clouds is progressing well. Hail...

Dear Editor: One of the candidates for sheriff seems to have a wink and a nod, good-ole-boy attitude towards law abidance. Candidate Ted Wolfe has flaunted the county sign ordinance which plainly stat...

Dear Editor: I would like to thank three members of the Ouray City Council for stepping up and forgoing their salaries for the rest of their terms in office. The three are Mayor Greg Nelson, Mayor Pro...

Dear Editor: COVID-19 makes it hard for sheriff's candidates to have physical exposure to the community. Without that exposure, we have to depend on what we read or hear. Ted Wolfe has 36 yea rs of la...

Dear Editor: The resolution recently co-sponsored by Congressman Tipton to condemn China over the COVlD-19 outbreak (HR 907) is disgraceful and overtly xenophobic. The resolution states that China " ....

Dear Editor: I’ve been thinking about what a challenging time this is for all of us, how stress and close quarters can make us vulnerable to depression, anxiety and anger. Anyone can go bonkers with w...

Dear Editor: An article in the March 12 edition of the Plaindealer stated the county believes that Doug Seacat of Deeply Digital overstepped the limitations of the project it was hired to do, which is...

Dear Editor: As an So-year-old man I am always amazed at what younger folks consider necessities! Because of the COVID-19 virus people have been filling their shopping carts with toilet paper and bott...

This was supposed to be a column celebrating our oneyear anniversa ry owning the Plaindealer. A year ago, Mike and I sold the house we remodeled in Grand junction, I gave away my backyard flock of chi...

  We had two of our eight grandkids come and spend some time with us. We had some fun times and made some wonderful memories. Every morning came early and every evening ended quickly. Now we a re used...

Dear Editor: I am responding to your "Firing fallout" article regarding the Ouray Schools superintendent. A similar incident occurred some years ago in Moore County, North Carolina, where I reside mos...