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By News Staff, on May 14, 2020
LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Wolfe, Schmidt will be a formidable team

Dear Editor:

Many of you won’t know who I am. After a 20-year career with the Wichita Police Department, I retired and moved to Ouray in October 1981. On January 11, 1982 I was sworn in as the chief of police for the City of Ouray. I remained in that position for 22 years, retiring on October 31, 2003.

As I built a police department for this city, professionalism was my primary goal and I hired experienced officers who could provide that. In 1998 I had...

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