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January 28, 2026
Editor's note: This article has been corrected to reflect that Ridgway...
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January 28, 2026
Manager: Looking for ways to avoid cutting employees Ouray County lead...
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Another officer resigns from police department, leaving sergeant and administrative assistant
February 2, 2026
The Ouray County Sheriff’s Office has assumed full responsibility for law enforcement services in the city of Ouray after City Administrator Michelle Metteer reassigned the police department’s two remaining officers to administrative duties. Sheriff Justin Perry confirmed to the Plaindealer today that the sheriff’s office took over all patrol duties in the city last week. Prior to that, the sherif...
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January 28, 2026
Ouray County's coroner is seeking help finding friends of a man who was estranged from his family and died at a Ouray hotel. Quality Inn staff found William Curio Jr., who went by Billy, in his hotel ...
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January 28, 2026
Ouray County has ordered a disc golf tournament held on Log Hill Mesa to stop operating without a special- use permit, citing concerns about illegal gambling as well as other county rule violations. C...
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January 28, 2026
A 93-acre wildfire mitigation project is receiving $500,000 in federal funding that was holding up completion of the $1.3 million effort. The Ouray Community Forest Resilience Project aims to scour de...
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January 28, 2026
Families in the Ouray School District will see several changes to the school calendar for the next two years, including the addition of a mid-winter break and graduation moving to the Sunday before Me...
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January 28, 2026
The Ouray School District is one step closer to having an approved facilities master plan to use as a conceptual blueprint guiding future building projects. The Ouray School Board on Monday postponed ...
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Resident threatens legal action unless board adopts rules requiring landowners to control species
January 28, 2026
Ouray County commissioners will hold a work session next month to discuss prairie dogs as a nuisance, following a written demand from a citizen who said he would pursue a class action lawsuit if the c...
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January 21, 2026
Ouray City Administrator Michelle Metteer told city councilors Tuesday she will take charge of recruiting a new police chief. That’s a different approach than the city took when it was looking for a p...
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A long-awaited cold snap allows Ice Park to open, just in time for festival
January 21, 2026
After weeks of planning for the worst, the Ouray Ice Park has ice to offer after all, just in time for the 31st Ice Festival this weekend. Ice Park Executive Director Peter O’Neil has spent the past t...
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January 28, 2026
Compiled from the files of The Ouray County Herald, The Ridgway Sun, and The Ouray County Plaindealer 60 Years Ago January 27, 1966 In a memorandum to Idarado employees in January, A.C. Hilander, gene...
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Photography studio redesigned into Cie Gallery
January 28, 2026
Dots and other markings cluster in ripples, circles and shapes on canvases of wood, almost as if etched by insects. Altogether, the carvings and glimmering paint washes illustrate larger forms of the ...
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January 28, 2026
Eva Henson knows what it’s like to navigate the challenges of affordable housing as a homeowner, beyond her experience working in housing. Ouray County’s new contracted housing services director spent...
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Jan. 29 – Feb. 11, 2026
January 28, 2026
THURSDAY JANUARY 29 After school craft time for elementary school students, 4-4:45 p.m. at the Ouray Public Library, 320 Sixth Ave. Tech Thursday – Get help with quick tech problems from 4-6 p.m. at t...
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'Anna' documents how Ouray-based Pfaff pushed ahead after amputation of toes
January 21, 2026
Anna Pfaff’s choice to move onward and, especially upward, resonates beyond world-class peaks in a locally made film on the elite Ouray-based climber. "Anna" is a 22-minute portrait of Pfaff’s return ...
Letters, Opinion...
January 28, 2026
Dear Editor: My wife and I are very proud of all the many improvements that have been made to our little town of Ridgway since we moved here about 10 years ago. We have one suggestion that we feel wou...
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January 28, 2026
The year 2025, Ouray’s hottest year ever recorded, began with a very cold, dry month. January 2025’s mean temperatures were 4.8 degrees below normal both day and night, making it the only below normal...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
January 28, 2026
Dear Editor: I want to commend the Ridgway Town Council for its decision not to move forward with the proposed vehicle idling ordinance and for taking a thoughtful, practical approach to the issue. I ...
Obituaries
January 28, 2026
May 23, 1925 – December 24, 2025 Phyllis C. Varney, 100, passed away peacefully at home on Christmas Eve 2025, in Huntsville, Alabama, surrounded by her loving family. Born in Thorntown, Indiana, Phyl...
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Attorneys say they're not ready; cases will be heard by Montrose juries
January 21, 2026
The trials for two men accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl in Ouray County in 2023 have been postponed, even as the woman and the judge presiding over the cases expressed concerns about ...
