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Covid vaccines available at public health department
COVID vaccines available at Public Health
October 8, 2025
Ouray County Public Health is offering COVID-19 vaccines, though there is currently a waitlist. The department administered 47 doses of the vaccine between Sept. 3 and Oct. 6 and is now waiting on new...
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Ridgway bans artificial turf for most new projects
Councilors split on restrictions that apply to residential properties, non-recreational uses
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
October 8, 2025
The Ridgway Town Council has approved new landscaping rules that ban artificial turf for non-recreational uses, including residential properties. The rules comply with a new state law prohibiting the ...
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City considers outdoor lighting rules
Draft ordinances would restrict brightness, allow police to enforce nuisance on private property
By Deb Hurley Brobst Special to the Plaindealer 
October 8, 2025
The city of Ouray doesn’t have a comprehensive ordinance regulating outdoor lighting, and city officials have decided it’s about time to get one. The city council on Monday directed staff to create tw...
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Looking Back
October 8, 2025
Compiled from the files of The Ouray County Herald, The Ridgway Sun, and The Ouray County Plaindealer 60 Years Ago October 14, 1965 Philip F. Icke, Ouray attorney, gave an address on most common legal...
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Duplan appointed to Planning Commission
Last Planning Commission vacancy filled
October 8, 2025
Ouray County commissioners unanimously approved appointing Shellie Duplan to fill a vacancy on the Ouray County Planning Commission, filling the last vacancy since an exodus of four planning commissio...
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Good For You!
October 8, 2025
The “Good For You!” page is a new feature we have launched in the Plaindealer, where we publish reader-submitted photos illustrating community, celebrations and more. Maybe you snapped photos of volun...
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Oct. 9-22, 2025
October 8, 2025
Thursday, October 9 Facing Wildfire Risk in Ouray County, a short film and panel discussion presented by the Telluride Foundation and West Region Wildfire Council. 6-7:30 p.m., Sherbino Theater, 602 C...
A race against time, Mother Nature
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A race against time, Mother Nature
More than a year after catastrophic flooding, Ridgway pushes to finish water diversion project
By Erin McIntyre erin@ouraynews.com 
October 1, 2025
Randy Barnes knew that morning he needed to check on Beaver Creek and the ditch bringing water down from the mountains above Elk Meadows to supply the town of Ridgway. More than 40 years of experience...
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October 1, 2025
Compiled from the files of The Ouray County Herald, The Ridgway Sun, and The Ouray County Plaindealer 50 Years Ago October 2, 1975 A one-ticket purchaser won the Jeep Cherokee in the Color Week drawin...
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Oct. 2-16, 2025
October 1, 2025
THURSDAY OCTOBER 2 Ouray County Republican Central Committee monthly meeting, 6 p.m., Twin Peaks Hot Springs Riverside breakfast room, 124 Third St. in Ouray. More information at ourayrepublicans.com....
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Ridgway post office locked a paid box
October 8, 2025
Dear Editor: I read with interest the reporting from Lia Salvatierra in the Sept. 25 edition regarding the Postal Service probe of locked boxes in Ridgway and wondered who alerted her to the matter. I...
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U.S. HIGHWAY 550 ACCIDENTS
State to speed up some safety upgrades on Highway 550
Safety audit of Ridgway-Montrose County section to be done June 2026; shoulder widening to start in 2027
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
October 1, 2025
The Colorado Department of Transportation will expedite a shoulder-widening project on U.S. Highway 550 and potential interim safety measures along the corridor in response to public concern about dan...
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Ilene MacLennan
October 1, 2025
June 1941 – September 2025 Ilene Anita (Jones) MacLennan, widely known as Mimi Mac, passed peacefully in the arms of her son and daughter-in-law. Mimi Mac was born in Waldron, Arkansas in June of 1941...
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