Dear Editor: We understand that the current Board of County Commissioners intends to select our county representative on the Colorado River District Board at their Jan. 5, 2021 meeting, one week prior...

December 22, 1977 Elks Santas A 50-Year-Old Tradition Here The warm, friendly glow of porch lights shining from homes throughout Ouray City and County on Christmas Eve will serve as a welcoming beacon...

Editor’s note: With Ouray County and the rest of the world still wrestling with COVID-19 here at the end of the year, we thought it would be interesting to look back at how the county’s forebears hand...

As we near this strange, constrained year’s end it’s a good time to take stock of our common welfare, climate and planet, our families and friends, ourselves. Unfortunately, the year 2020 is and will ...

Is anybody else tired? That’s a rhetorical question, of course. Most of us are weary of the pandemic, still exhausted from the hectic summer and fall tourism, still recovering from the tur bulence of...

Dear Editor: I am writing today to correct a misstatement in an article that appeared in the December 17-23, 2020 edition of the Ouray County Plaindealet The article indicated that Ouray County had $2...

'Twas the night before Christmas, I musta’ been totally soused. I thought I saw reindeer pullin’ a fat man on a sleigh, land on top of our house. They left skid marks as they slid to a stop in the sno...

Dear Editor: We are writing to express our gratitude for the amazing teamwork displayed by the entire staff at Ouray School during this pandemic. The school has been proactive/transparent in their pla...

Dear Editor: Not only during the holidays, but each and every day, I am so very thankful for all that I have! While others complain of “COVID fatigue” (which is certainly real and understandable), utm...

Imagine, for a moment, that you live in a rural Colorado community of, say, one thousand people. Then imagine a major news event happening in your town. You know, like a dangerous pandemic, invisible ...

If you wanted to go from Santa Fe to Los Angeles today, you’d hop on Interstate 4o and zoom across New Mexico, Arizona and southern California. This 830-mile journey whizzes past mesas, canyons, arroy...

Dear Editor: Let’s take a break from obsessing over politics and masks for a moment and focus on an issue that has been plaguing the Ridgway community for years, and recently has gone from just being ...

Dear Editor: To the landowners on upper County Road 5, thank you for the new ski trail parallel to the county road. It is a great improvement to ski, snowshoe and hike on a groomed trail instead of th...

The cross country meet results Bernie Pearce dutifully distributes each week during the fall to school staff, parents and community members are replete with PRs. That stands for personal record — a st...

Even small places deserve good journalism. That was our mantra when we purchased the Ouray County Plaindealer less than two years ago. And since then, we’ve kept that mantra at the forefront of our d...

Dear Editor: I’m writing today to address those who believe that the pandemic isn’t real, or that things like mask mandates and business restrictions are violations of their constitutional rights. I r...

Nature awaits many surprises For thee — Enos Mills A surprise came to me Friday, Nov. 6, when my friend Chris Lance of Ridgway notified me that she had a Brown Thrasher on her property and she thought...

Dear Editor, Well, the incessant commercials are over, the bothersome phone calls have ceased, the yard signs are disappearing, the trash cans are empty at the post office and the presidential electio...

I don’t know why Gene Thomas said yes, but I’m glad he did. I was a naive teenager, opening the creaky wooden door to his office, tiptoeing in and nervously approaching the counter. A black and white...

Its been a classic Colorado November here in Ouray, a true transition month: 17 warm, sunny and short days; six cloudy days with rain, snow and sleet; two blustery ones with 40 mph winds. On the warm ...