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Donors made reading program possible
By News Staff 
September 28, 2022
Dear Editor: As the summer season has come to an end, the Ridgway Library just wanted to take a moment and thank Café a la Mode, Snowbirds and Colorado Boy for participating in our summer reading prog...
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Appreciation for Plaindealer
By News Staff 
September 28, 2022
Dear Editor: Congratulations to the editor, publisher and entire staff of the Plaindealer on the many awards bestowed on the paper by the Colorado Press Association last week. Our community is extreme...
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Thanks for student backing
By News Staff 
September 28, 2022
Dear Editor: We would like to personally thank the Ouray County community for their generous support of the 22nd year of The Mount Sneffels Marathon-Half Marathon-10K and Kids Fun Run. Because of the ...
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OURAY COUNTY LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
September 28, 2022
50 YEARS AGO September 28, 1972 - A jury of six (four women, two men) awarded $25,000 to be paid by the County of Ouray to Wayland and David Phillips. The damage trial culminates years of arguments ov...
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Ouray volleyball returns a year after getting spiked
Ouray volleyball returns a year after getting spiked
By Liz Teitz 
September 28, 2022
High school girls volleyball has returned to Ouray School, a year after it was cut due to low participation, and strong interest in middle school offers is a promising sign for the program’s future. ...
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Addressing tobacco, vaping much needed
By News Staff 
September 28, 2022
Dear Editor: A quarter of a century “Big Tobacco,” whose products were killing more than 400,000 Americans a year, appeared to be on the ropes. Cities and states around the country had enacted clean i...
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UPSCALE GOODS FOR GUYS
UPSCALE GOODS FOR GUYS
By Kylea Henseler 
September 28, 2022
The first men’s section at Michelle Poirier’s Blue Pear store in Ouray was a single apple crate labeled “Men’s Department.” But when dudes headed into the store they went straight for it. Poirier exp...
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Fundraiser features tour of Ouray homes
Fundraiser features tour of Ouray homes
By Erin McIntyre 
September 28, 2022
Earlier this month, Mark Orgren overheard voices as children from nearby Ouray Elementary School on a field trip hiked up the sledding hill in front of his house on Fifth Avenue. "That's a cool house...
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Help monitor local bighorn population
By News Staff 
September 28, 2022
Dear Editor: We hope you saw the Great Old Broads for Wilderness paid ad last week on the back page of this publication describing the risk to our native bighorn sheep population from respiratory path...
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Plein air painter opens new Ouray gallery
Plein air painter opens new Ouray gallery
By Kylea Henseler 
September 28, 2022
A back injury nearly 40 years ago forced rancher Mike Simpson to consider a career change. Doctors asked him what else he could do, and he gave them an answer: he could paint. Now, after more than 30 ...
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Kindness appreciated during tragedy
By News Staff 
September 21, 2022
Dear Editor: To the citizens of Ouray, I want to thank you for the kindness shown to my daughter, her sister and brother-in-law after the sideby- side accident on Sept. 5, 2022. I have never seen such...
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RAMBLE AT THE RESERVOIR
RAMBLE AT THE RESERVOIR
By News Staff 
September 21, 2022
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Commissioners haven’t earned respect
By News Staff 
September 15, 2022
Dear Editor: Thank you, Robb Austin, for feedback on my public comment for the second reading of the new marijuana ordinance. I appreciate the opportunity to expand upon comments that may have seemed ...
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Thanks to all who hustled
By News Staff 
September 15, 2022
Dear Editor: On behalf of the Fortuna Tierra Club, I’d like to publicly thank the many people who participated and contributed to the success of the 7th Annual Log Hill Hustle on Sunday, Aug. 28: • 40...
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Refugee housing: good idea, wrong place
By News Staff 
September 15, 2022
Dear Editor: So there’s a plan to get county permission to rebuild the old Fairway Pines golf course clubhouse into refugee housing. Why would anyone want to stick two dozen 20-year-old war-torn refug...
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Meet a Ouray teacher
Meet a Ouray teacher
By Plaindealer Staff Report 
September 15, 2022
Editor's note: We have continued the tradition of asking new teachers in Ouray and Ridgway to introduce themselves to the community here in the Plaindealer. Here is our last profile, from Alexandros B...
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CLIMBING THE VIEWS
CLIMBING THE VIEWS
By Kylea Henseler 
September 15, 2022
Growing up in Philadelphia, Jim Donini wanted to be an explorer. He pored over books about great adventures provided by his father, a history teacher, but feared everything had already been explored. ...
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TRYING TO KEEP PACE
TRYING TO KEEP PACE
By David Emory 
September 15, 2022
The combined Ridgway-Ouray-Silverton cross country team hosts the Ramble at the Reservoir on Friday, with the first race at 2:30 p.m.
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We need tolerance and respect, not proselytizing
By News Staff 
September 8, 2022
Dear Editor: I can identify with Alyssa Preston’s habit of “self-censoring” to avoid offending those of her neighbors who do not accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. I appreciate that approac...
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Our homework: Fact check information
By News Staff 
September 8, 2022
Dear Editor: “Do your homework! Follow the money!” we are admonished in Alyssa Preston’s letter to the editor of Sept. 1: “Research shows that funders of the international drag queen story hour have a...
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New county manager seeks to lead with heart
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New county manager seeks to lead with heart
After careers in big cities and large governments, Antonio Mendez is shifting his perspective
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
February 4, 2026
Ouray County is unlike most places Antonio Mendez has lived or worked before, and Mendez brings experience unlike the county has seen in two decades, or possibly ever. Ouray County’s new manager grew ...
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City leader pulls police from patrol duty
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City leader pulls police from patrol duty
Administrator cites concerns about training, liability; sheriff's office assumes full control of services in Ouray
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
February 4, 2026
Ouray City Administrator Michelle Metteer has pulled the police department’s two remaining officers off of patrol duty and reassigned them to administrative tasks, citing concerns about liability and ...
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County considers asking voters for tax hike in November
Staff to research potential funding measures for EMS, road and bridge; sheriff won't seek question this fall
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
February 4, 2026
Ouray County leaders want to research and poll the public’s appetite for asking voters for more tax revenue, to raise additional money for the county’s Emergency Medical Services and the Road and Brid...
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Ridgway gets initial OK for $1.34M grant
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
February 4, 2026
Ridgway has received initial approval for a $1.34 million grant to help it explore an all-electric building code for new construction and help electrify municipal operations, to lower its carbon footp...
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Good for you! Uncompahgre STEAM Fair
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Good for you! Uncompahgre STEAM Fair
February 4, 2026
The “Good For You!” page is a place for reader-submitted photos illustrating community, celebrations and more. Want to submit a photo for publication? Here are some guidelines for submissions: - This ...
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