Dear Editor:

This summer as I read my weekly Plaindealer online, my heart went out to the town, the county, and its people.

Rude tourists flocked into Ouray refusing to wear masks, knocking items off shelves in stores angrily arguing with store owners, and Lauren Boebert being hosted. I wondered how in the world this could have happened in the county I had longed to move to.

However, in my current issue, I read about Patrick and Marti O’Leary along with Ridgway neighbors Cat and Barthold Lichtenb...