Dear Editor: I’d like to offer my congratulations to the Ouray School Class of 2022. From what I read in the Trojan Tribune members of this class are going to very challenging universities and looking...

Dear Editor: Immigrants. People from somewhere else, arriving here to stay, not visit; to settle down, not return. People who chose to live among us, work with us, in our schools, shops and towns, lea...

You can see it in their faces — pursed lips, creased foreheads, steely eyes. You can hear it in their voices — the impatience, the protest, the anguish. The people who call the area around Wildcat Ca...

Dear Editor: Last month, Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper welcomed the Senate’s first-ever committee vote on the Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy (CORE) Act. This is ...

Dear Editor: Now that the 2021-2022 school year is all but concluded, I speak on behalf of the Ouray School District to say thanks to the supportive community members who have contributed in a variety...

Dear Editor: According to Ouray Ranger District Manager Dana Gardunio, proceeding with the Simms Mesa prescribed burn on May 16 was “(her) decision ... based on the best information (she) had at the m...

Dear Editor: In 1944 when I was in Normandy, the sirens would glare and tell us that a bombing raid had begun, it was time to go. And we knew where the closest bomb shelter was. This is unlikely to ha...

Dear Editor: The Board of County Commissioners is scheming to raise your taxes again. This time it’s a citizen-proposed property tax increase for another four deputies and maybe another tax increase f...

Ridgway’s Community Garden is often windy, cold or hot depending on the season and time of day or night. But most importantly, it’s a very popular and productive place on spring and summer weekends. T...

Dear Editor: Just a quick note of congratulations to all the students who work so hard on the Trojan Tribune. I enjoy reading it and learn something new every time! Congrats to the graduating seniors ...

Dear Editor: My husband and I have lived on Government Springs Road since 1997. I want to thank the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management for their recent efforts to extinguish the Simms F...

Dear Editor: As a father of three young children who spend a lot of time playing outdoors, it concerns me to see chemical herbicides being sprayed throughout the town. I understand the goal of elimina...

Dear Editor: I believe that the far majority of citizens in Ouray County would agree we elected an outstanding sheriff in Justin Perry! Through his leadership he has raised the level of professionalis...

Dear Editor, We, the members of Ouray High School's For Your Queer Information Group, would like to affirm our support for the teaching of LGBTQIA+ topics in school curricula. Let it be known that we ...

Area ranchers Michael and Maggie Cuddigan wanted a daughter. They found 9-year-old Mary Rose Mathews at St. Vincent’s Asylum in Denver in 1883. Her mother had died, and her father, a Denver police off...

Photos by David Emory — Special to the Plaindealer

Dear Editor: “This place was better when the Utes owned it,” you can often hear me lament. But they don’t anymore. We do. And ranches and towns and houses fill our landscape. Even our backcountry has ...

Dear Editor: I had a conversation with a logging truck driver on April 22 concerning his bypassing Ridgway via county roads 24A and 24. I told him it was illegal for his oversized, heavy and dust-prod...

Not only through an amazing experience of watching a bird or animal does one develop a “reverence for all life.” One of my birding friends and I were recently at Dutch Charlie, inside Ridgway State Pa...

50 YEARS AGO April 27, 1972 — The Board of Education of Ouray School District R-1 in a regular meeting April 24 unanimously opposed the inclusion of Ouray County in the proposed Montrose Junior Colleg...