Dear Editor: Please remove a ll mask mandates for Ouray County. Stand up for our citizens' rights of freedom. The mask mandates from the state of Colorado are illegal and take away our right for freed...

Dear Editor: In the Aug. 20 edition of The Plaindealer equestrian Sarah McConnell expressed her support for a new Miller Mesa Recreation Trail in her letter to the editor. Among her arguments was the ...

Dear Editor: On Aug. 25, 2020, we expressed our concerns to Ouray County commissioners about conditions of our alpine access roads and alpine zones. Over the past two summers, we have witnessed and ex...

Dear Editor: I would like to state, for the record, that I am against any mandates for Ouray County, Colorado. Our county, state, and country is being adversely affected by the current COVID-19 mandat...

Dear Editor: I don't understand the anti-maskers. Don't they believe in the germ theory of disease? I'm not going to recite all the numbers about why our country is the worst off of anywhere in the wo...

When Lupita’s Bizarre Bazaar owner Susan Baker came to Ridgway in 1989, she saw potential in the little “cowboy town” to be what it is today.  And when Baker envisions something, things happen. Maybe ...

It's been sweet to get measurable rain again after a rather disastrous month of seriously abnormal heat, drought and smoke, but August 2020 isn't finished and may yet be one for the record books in ma...

Dear Editor: I read with interest the front page article in last week's paper regarding mask wearing. I am writing because I work at a retail shop in Ouray in the summers and have some thoughts on thi...

Dear Editor: I find the mask controversy somewhat interesting, including the display of emotional outburst by some folks. If wearing a mask to possibly help bring our economy back is such a burden, th...

Dear Editor: The lead article of your most-recent edition has within its opening paragraphs the use of the words "Nazi" and "SS" in reference to the public health directives that require the use of fa...

Dear Editor: Thank you for your article regarding the wearing of masks during this pandemic. I was surprised by some of the vitriol that was directed toward the local politicians and public health off...

Dear Editor: What a difference a year makes. With all of the uncertainty related to COVID-19, the experience of preparing our five kids for the first day of school has been very different this year. W...

Dear Editor: I found it disheartening, discouraging and disturbing to read last week's article, "Officials absorb flak over masks;' describing verbal and written communications received by our communi...

The first challenge was just getting to Ouray. Aja Tibbs and her family sold their suburban Denver home a week before the COVID-19 pandemic made in-person closings difficult, if not impossible. But th...

Ridgway Secondary School's new principal is prepared to weather whatever storm may lie ahead with the reopening of school in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Raised in Oklahoma, where he started his...

Dear Editor: I would like to voice my support for the Miller Mesa Recreational Trail (MMRT). As a lifelong equestrian and resident of Ouray County, I feel this is a wonderful addition to our outdoor c...

Dear Editor:   Corbett Creek is approximately 8 inches deep and 5 feet wide. After the last major flood in 2008, the Ouray County Road and Bridge Department began excavating gravel from the creek on a...

Dear Editor: Racism, gender identity phobias and hate, ethnic and religious prejudice, misogyny, and any other negative responses toward those who may be different that we are are all learned first in...

The additional conference rooms are ready for the board meetings and LEGO club get-togethers. An expanded children’s area featuring stands of aspen trunks, a play kitchen and an activity room is ready...

50 YEARS AGO August 13, 1970 - Editorial: It's high time Ouray asks the Highway Department for assistance with its current traffic problems before someone gets killed on Main Street. One of the many f...