Dear Editor: I spent some time last month at the fabulous Ridgway Rendezvous Art and Craft Festival. I must congratulate the organizers, Weehawken Creative Arts and their executive director, Ashley Ki...

Dear Editor: Let me tell you an imaginary story. I live in a small yet diverse community, with generations of my family. My grandma is a wonderful lady who has lived here her entire life, as have I. S...

Dear Editor: Years ago, in response to my wife's death by avalanche, the Ridgway ski community worked together to initiate the first (and last) Winter Carnival for mountain safety. The event was very ...

Dear Editor: One factor in the loss of life from the wildland fires on Maui has been attributed to the lack of warning of the need to evacuate Lāhainā. Their cellphone notification system was not suff...

Dear Editor: It is hard to envision an institution that is more evocative of the Beaumont Hotel's storied and sophisticated past than the bookshop that has occupied the storefront of the hotel since D...

Dear Editor: I am not a resident of Ouray but have been visiting repeatedly since the early 1970s and have frequented the bookstore ever since it opened. It has been a hallmark of the very essence of ...

Dear Editor: Ouray County retail businesses benefi tted immensely from a rapid increase in tourism during the pandemic. Unintended consequences from myriad stimulus programs, top ups and deferments ma...

Dear Editor: With the news that the lease at the Beaumont for the Ouray Bookshop will not be renewed, we see another example of newcomers in Ouray wanting to change things. Newcomers to Ouray always e...

Dear Editor: I attended a Ouray City Council workshop last week involving the Waterview affordable housing project. It seems the developer now has requested to (not) pave the street in this subdivisio...

Dear Editor: Over the last couple of years certain issues, particularly lower water temperatures, have caused a great deal of discontent among our citizens who have known and loved the Ouray Hot Sprin...

Dear Editor: I read with concern your article in the Aug. 24 edition of the Plaindealer about an illegal gate installed on County Road 14 by a Ouray city councilor and disguised to appear to be an off...

Dear Editor: As relatively new part-time residents to Ouray, here are the top five questions I'd like our mayoral and city council candidates to answer: 1. How do you think we should address employee ...

Dear Editor: My name is Macey Cornell and I am going into seventh grade at Ridgway Secondary School. I recently finished my first year of 4-H raising lambs and chickens. I also crocheted a lamb in the...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: In a letter to the editor published in the Aug. 17 Plaindealer, Gillian Jacobson claimed that a Planning Commission hearing was “not held at the published framework f...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: The Ouray City Council is using Planned Unit Development (PUD) rules for low-initial-cost, high-density subdivisions in Ouray. In front of the manufactured home build...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: Originating in Philadelphia, the National Night Out annual community bonding festival originally included only law enforcement. But the one held in Ridgway earlier th...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: Forest fires in the West are burning with higher intensity than ever before due to rapid heating of the planet. Climate scientists have discovered that a big factor i...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: When Donald Trump tried to steal my right to vote in the 2020 election, I considered it the single most brazen attack on America in my lifetime. Nothing else comes cl...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: It all started during a 1994 family vacation, our first time in Ouray. My late wife, Liz, said to me, “Let’s retire here someday!” Sadly, she passed away in 2007. The...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: I retired to Ouray County in summer 2021 with the purchase of a home. I received a call today from the Ouray County Assessor's Office after scheduling a meeting with ...