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Second Chance Humane Society
December 24, 2025
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Home Trust of Ouray County
December 24, 2025
Year established as a nonprofit: 2018 What does your organization do f...
Sherbino Theater/ Ridgway Chautauqua
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Sherbino Theater/ Ridgway Chautauqua
December 24, 2025
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Time to reconsider policing in Ouray
December 24, 2025
Dear Editor: With the departure of Interim Police Chief Daric Harvey, Ouray once again faces instability in its police department. Rather than automatically rebuilding the same structure, this feels l...
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Ouray Elks Lodge
December 24, 2025
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Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership
December 24, 2025
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West Region Wildfire Council
December 24, 2025
Year established as a nonprofit: 2007 What does your organization do for Ouray County? With wildfires becoming a greater and greater risk to Western Colorado, WRWC strives to educate and aid in wildfi...
Still full of Grit, 40 years later
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Still full of Grit, 40 years later
Ridgway's True Grit Cafe marks anniversary as community institution
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
December 24, 2025
If you walk into True Grit Cafe, there's a good chance the proprietor herself will be the one who greets you before the door shuts behind you. She doesn't spend much time up in her office, where there...
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Business briefs: closings and openings
December 24, 2025
Flower shops close store fronts Two flower shops that opened store fronts in Ridgway this fall have closed their doors. San Juan Blooms, which opened Aug. 25 in the greenhouse of the Ridgway Fire Hous...
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Let’s recommit to being kind, understanding
December 24, 2025
Dear Editor: As we welcome the winter solstice, and the slow return of the light, I want to share some thoughts for the season, and the year to come. I believe the core values of the season, whatever ...
From start to finish, a too-warm, too-dry 2025
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From start to finish, a too-warm, too-dry 2025
December 24, 2025
Dreaming of a white Christmas? Wunderground’s “meteorologists qualify a white Christmas as one with at least an inch of snow on the ground [SOG] on Christmas morning,” (Hayden Marshall and Jonathan Er...
Ronald Shannon
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Ronald Shannon
December 24, 2025
October 12, 1946 – November 26, 2025 Ronald Myron Shannon passed away at age 79 at UW Madison Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin, on November 26, 2025, surrounded by his family. Ron was born in Reedsburg,...
James Forrest Cason
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James Forrest Cason
December 24, 2025
February 26, 1988 – November 27, 2025 James Forrest Cason, 37, left this world unexpectedly on Thanksgiving Day 2025 at his family home in Ridgway, Colorado – a place woven into the landscape of his c...
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Council qualifies homebuyer for deed-restricted unit
December 17, 2025
The Ridgway Town Council approved qualifying a homebuyer for a deed-restricted unit in the Vista Park Commons neighborhood after discussing whether the unit was advertised fairly. The council, acting ...
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