Life as a legislator these days is unusual and challenging. Our time at home is spent working, navigating a world of new problems and new concerns. We’re getting ready to return to Denver in May to fu...

Dear Editor: It seems to me that people who have a second home in Ouray are considered second-class citizens as far as the Board of County Commissioners and Mr. Tanner Kingery of the Ouray County Publ...

Dear Editor: Conversation about Ouray pool and gym problems surface frequently among Ouray and Ridgway locals. The issues are repeatedly about cold pool temperatures that keep soakers away, broken loc...

Dear Editor: Thank you to the BOCC and Mr. Tanner Kingery, MPH (Public Health Director) for having the intelligence and courage to evaluate the data, listen to the public health/medical experts and th...

March 2020 in Ouray was warm and droughty, following a dry, cold February. Highs for the month averaged 47.5 degrees; normal is 3 degrees lower, 44.6. Lows were proportionately even warmer, averaging ...

Dear Editor: • Thank you to the Ouray County Plaindealer (their editors) for again calling out a government entity in our county (this time the Ridgway School Board) for limiting public participation ...

Dear Editor: In one fell swoop the pendulum swung from one post to the other earlier this month. At the same time as the Tourism Office's contract with Ouray was expiring, the anti-Tourism Office spra...

By Joel Priest, Special to the Plaindealer   By way of a 3-2-2-1 vote split between the 2A/1A San Juan Basin League’s basketball coaches, Ouray High School’s Craig Kaminsky was recently chosen — over...

Photo courtesy Steven Scheu The Ouray Elks Lodge has hosted an Easter event for children for more than so years, and this year was no exception, even ifthe coronavirus pandemic dictated a more sociall...

This pandemic has challenged all of us to varying degrees. Coping with stay-at-home orders, restricted business operations, economic hardship and isolation are just a few of the difficulties we’ve all...

Shep and I were of the same opinion that all a guy really needs in life is a full belly and a warm place to sleep. I think that the year was 1958. I would have been eight years old. Dad was a ranch ha...

In early March, many rural Coloradans initially assumed they would be safe from COVID-19; the television coverage showed crowded cities, huge, overflowing hospitals and long lines at the grocery store...

Dear Editor: Once again, a Ouray County law enforcement officer gets off with a slap on the wrist on an embarrassingly serious felony charge. We refer to former Ouray County sheriff deputy/undersherif...

Since 2006, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer has been writing a poem a day to publish on her website. As the emotional weight of the coronavirus outbreak presses on her and others around her, she sa id the ...

Mountain Chill Radio has temporarily extended its broadcast reach into Ouray County during the new coronavirus outbreak. At the request of Ouray County, the station, whose call letters are KRKQ and wh...

50 YEARS AGO March 19, 1970 - The annual Jeep give-away has been launched with a bang. Joint efforts of both the Chamber of Commerce, who sponsor the project and the Ouray Fireman on fund raising is e...

As a freshman at Ouray School, Judah Preston discovered what it’s like to play in a high school state basketball tournament in front of a packed house, to feed off the crowd’s energy. Last week, he fo...

In his first year as head coach, Adam Trujillo took the Ouray boys’ basketball team to the Class 1A state tournament. The Trojans were quickly knocked out of the double-elimination playoffs. Three ye...

To say Dawn Oliver is passionate about helping animals would be an understatement. Not only has she worked as a certified veterinary assistant at Ridgway Animal Hospital for 13 years, she uses her vac...

Second Chance Humane Society is hosting its third-annual Furry Flicks & Fashion Event this weekend, with the proceeds supporting its new program supporting low-income families with keeping their pets ...