Dear Editor: Restrictions on short-term rentals are a violation of private property rights in residential zones. Renting property is a source of income. By banning it, you are eliminating income oppor...

50 YEARS AGO August 19, 1971 - Eight-year-old Lisa Denise Hill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl V. Hill, Route 1, Ridgway, became the first traffic fatality this year in Ouray County when killed while c...

Dear Editor: In response to the Mudges from Mesa, Arizona, who were unclear as to why someone might suggest a “vacant house tax” in Ouray on second homeowners. Vacant homes do not house young families...

Dear Editor: This summer is on track to be another record-breaking wildfire season, Canada experienced a 120-degree heat wave, the floods in Germany were shocking, the 20- year drought on the Western ...

Dear Editor: On Aug. 10 our family sold our house on Log Hill Village. I am absolutely going to miss this area of Colorado. I'm going to miss True Grit, Mountain Market, Colorado Boy and Fiddlers Gree...

A necessary scavenger that Performs a task that nature Deemed them best equipped To fulfill – Alfred "Bud" Starling The Turkey Vulture is among the most common large carnivorous birds in North America...

50 YEARS AGO August 12, 1971 - Robert E. Majors, 31, of Wichita, Kansas, allegedly stole over $600 worth of tools from the Idarado Mining Company where he was employed as a machinist. It is believed h...

Dear Editor: Last month, I wrote that I was disappointed about a few things that happened during the water fights on the Fourth of July. Since then, I heard from Adam Kunz, a long-time resident of Our...

Dear Editor: It was suggested by an audience member at last week’s Ouray City Council meeting that second homeowners in Ouray be assessed an additional annual tax ie, a “vacant home tax”. It isn’t cle...

Dear Editor: Wildlife and public lands advocates couldn’t be more thrilled to learn that the Ouray Board of County Commissioners unanimously endorsed a recommendation to add Baldy Mountain and the Bea...

50 YEARS AGO August 5, 1971 - The Gunnison Forest Advisory Council toured the roads adjacent to and road corridors through the Uncompahgre Primitive Area July 21 and 22. Many obvious conflicts were ob...

Dear Editor: My wife and I joined countless good Americans who cheered as Asian American Olympian Sunisa “Suni” Lee earned a gold medal in the individual all-around gymnastic event. We, of course, wer...

Dear Editor: Ouray County’s inaugural Pride celebration was a great success attended by locals and folks from across the Western Slope. Congratulations to the youth who initiated and organized the eve...

Dear Editor: I am not much for that kumbaya, we’re all in this together, stuff. But, the promise of herd immunity for COVID-19 — that if around 75% of us were vaccinated or otherwise developed antibod...

Dear Editor: On behalf of the Lowery family I would like to sincerely thank the entire community for their overwhelming show of love and support. You are too numerous to count but you provided meals a...

On Tuesday night, Ouray County residents have three opportunities to attend National Night Out, an event hosted by local law enforcement to promote police-community partnerships and neighborhood camar...

50 YEARS AGO July 29, 1971 - The Department of Agriculture today ordered a nationwide census of all horses as part of its program to confine and eradicate Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis already d...

The owner of the newly renovated, historic Columbus Building in Ouray has purchased another historic building in town without the accompanying headache. Stuart Gillespie spent years getting approvals ...

Pianist Kara Huber is re-entering the live performance world with a concert in Ouray on Saturday, and she couldn’t be happier about returning to a sense of normalcy with an in-person audience. It’s be...

A hip new trend has come to Ridgway with longstanding historic roots — kava roots, to be precise. Sara Taylor, who boasts 20 years of experience as an herbalist, recently opened Herbal Roots Apothecar...