Main, News...
January 8, 2025
A Ridgway man was killed Tuesday after being caught in an avalanche wh...
Feature, Main...
January 8, 2025
In the shadows of the Uncompaghre Gorge, Sonya Wilson carefully swung her ice axe and kicked her crampons up a frosty pitch. Hooked into belayers watching from above, neighboring climbers treading up the ice punctuated the cold air with shouts of climbing commands. When Wilson needed to communicate with her belayer while ascending, she briefly let go of the axe to tug on her rope or sign to an Ame...
News
January 8, 2025
More than two years after securing conditional rights to access water from Canyon Creek, the Ouray Ice Park is about $200,000 away from finishing its $1.4 million campaign to tap into that water suppl...
News
Annual competition pairing horses with winter sports returns Friday-Sunday at fairgrounds
January 8, 2025
The sport marrying Western horse culture with slope shredders returns to Ridgway this weekend, with the ninth annual San Juan Skijoriing competition at the Ouray County 4-H Event Center. Riders on hor...
Looking Back, News...
OURAY COUNTY
40 YEARS AGO
January 8, 2025
January 10, 1975 – Jan. 27 is the date in 1950 when Ouray City Hall was almost totally destroyed by fire of undetermined origin that broke out late that night and left only three walls standing of the...
News
January 8, 2025
A Ridgway man who was backcountry skiing near Red Mountain Pass was killed after being buried by an avalanche on Tuesday. Ouray County Coroner Glenn Boyd identified the victim as 57-year-old Donald Mo...
News
TOP STORIES OF THE YEAR: OURAY POLICE TURMOIL
January 1, 2025
The revelation that a 17-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted inside the home of Ouray’s police chief ignited a turbulent 2024 for the police department, a year that witnessed multiple inter...
News
TOP STORIES OF THE YEAR: TROUBLES WITHIN DA'S OFFICE
January 1, 2025
The top prosecutor for Ouray and five other counties announced his resignation in September and left the job only days before he would have been re-elected to his unopposed seat. His replacement will ...
Columns, Feature...
January 8, 2025
I had a delightful conversation with Sue Young after the Second Chance Humane Society shelter manager let me know that she has been a star volunteer for years, walking dogs, helping at adoption events...
Calendar & Events, Feature...
January 8, 2025
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9 TALK: "Guiding the Heights: Inside Mt. Everest's Commercial Climbs" with Chad Peele, 6 - 8:30 p.m. at The Sherbino, 604 Clinton St., Ridgway. Tickets $10 in advance or $15 day of s...
Calendar & Events, Feature...
Jan. 2-14, 2025
January 1, 2025
THURSDAY, JANUARY 2 MEETING: Ouray County Republican Central Committee monthly meeting, 6 p.m., County Land Use building, 111 Mall Road, Ridgway. More information at ourayrepublicans.com. FRIDAY, JANU...
Feature
December 27, 2024
Editor’s note: The Ouray County Plaindealer started publishing profiles of nonprofits between Thanksgiving and New Year’s in 2020 as a community service. The purpose of these profiles is to highlight ...
Feature
SEASON OF SHARING
December 25, 2024
Editor’s note: The Ouray County Plaindealer started publishing profiles of nonprofits between Thanksgiving and New Year’s in 2020 as a community service. The purpose of these profiles is to highlight ...
Feature
December 25, 2024
Editor’s note: The Ouray County Plaindealer started publishing profiles of nonprofits between Thanksgiving and New Year’s in 2020 as a community service. The purpose of these profiles is to highlight ...
Columns, Opinion...
January 8, 2025
Put Ophir, Colorado, on your exploration bucket list for this summer. At 9,695 feet in elevation, this off-the-beaten-path community is seven miles southwest of Telluride and 10 “adventurous” miles fr...
Obituaries
January 8, 2025
August 14, 1933-December 23, 2024 John H. Linville passed December 23, 2024, in Montrose, Colorado. He was born August 14, 1933, in Harveyville, Kansas, to Nellie Jean (Stanford) and O.M. “Mike” Linvi...
Obituaries
January 8, 2025
December 24, 1934-December 29, 2024 Olive Ramona Klein (Wilson) was born December 24, 1934, in Nucla, Colorado. She went to school in Nucla and finished high school in Ouray, Colorado. Mona passed awa...
Obituaries
January 8, 2025
February 14, 1930-January 2, 2025 Doris was born February 14, 1930 on a farm near Osceola, Nebraska to Richard Christan and Viola Esther Wieseman. She attended Osceola schools and graduated from Natio...
News
TOP STORIES OF THE YEAR: CRYSTAL'S FUTURE CLOUDY
January 1, 2025
The future of Crystal Reservoir, the shallow body of water atop Red Mountain Pass prized for its scenic values and water rights, is very much up in the air heading into the new year. The U.S. Forest S...
