Columns, Opinion...
By News Staff 
May 31, 2023
50 YEARS AGO May 31, 1973 - H.C McNulty, well-known Ouray resident, was killed last Thursday as he was en route to check the upper spring on his property south of Ouray, just off the Camp Bird Road. A...
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Columns, Opinion...
By News Staff 
May 24, 2023
50 YEARS AGO May 24, 1973 - The Plaindealer has obtained reports of the amount of snowfall this winter from the Camp Bird Mine. At the Camp Bird, snow this year measured 404 inches, which is 80 to 90 ...
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Opinion
By Karen Risch 
May 24, 2023
Spring finally showed up this merry month of May, bringing some of the changeable weather normally associated with March and April. A months-old pattern of below-normal temperatures continues, with Ma...
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Columns, Opinion...
By News Staff 
May 17, 2023
50 YEARS AGO May 17, 1973 - Editorial: Ma Bell’s gone around the bend again, to the point where there’s no living with her. The decline has become too severe. Every week there’s a new aberration. A fe...
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Columns, Opinion...
By News Staff 
May 10, 2023
50 YEARS AGO May 10, 1973 - Postal Service Week was commemorated at the Ouray Post Office this past week by honoring a uniquely outstanding postal customer: Dora S. Merling, who has used the Postal Se...
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Feature, Opinion...
By Carolyn Snowbarger 
May 10, 2023
As you’re making your summer plans, don’t forget Creede. Located on Colorado’s Silver Thread, Highway 149, it’s a place where you can still see into the past. The Utes knew this land well. They had hu...
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Opinion
By Erin McIntyre 
May 3, 2023
It seems the only constant is change, doesn't it? We're about to have some of that here at the Plaindealer I wanted to let you know about. I'll warn you, it's bittersweet news. Liz Teitz, who has repo...
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Columns, Opinion...
By News Staff 
May 3, 2023
50 YEARS AGO May 3, 1973 - Bob Larson, an engineer at Idarado Mining Company in Ouray, was injured Tuesday when an estimated five tons of rock fell on and around him. Larson was working in the 2254 st...
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Opinion
By Karen Risch 
April 26, 2023
Winter 2022-23 slammed much of Colorado’s Western Slope with a remarkable five months (out of seven, so far) of below normal temperatures. A bonus of monotonous gray days, plentiful snow, and bountifu...
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Opinion
By News Staff 
April 19, 2023
Why are you spending time on this? Why is this a story? Why don’t you write about something "more positive?" It’s not unusual for journalists to field these questions, even among ourselves. We regula...
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Opinion
By News Staff 
April 13, 2023
50 YEARS AGO April 12, 1973 - Greatly to her surprise, Miss Emma Lou Wilder, indefatigable secretary of the Ouray County Chamber of Commerce, was named Distinguished Citizen of the Year by Ouray Elks ...
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Opinion
By News Staff 
March 30, 2023
50 YEARS AGO March 29, 1973 - A wrecker towing a car went out of control last Saturday night and tore out the bridge that crosses Skyrocket Creek just north of Ouray. The wrecker, a 1957 International...
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Opinion
By Carolyn Snowbarger 
March 8, 2023
“WOMAN FREE. Man Is Convicted of Manslaughter” was the lead story in the Silverton Standard on Sept. 28, 1912. The Dallavalles immigrated to southwest Colorado from Austria in the early years of the 2...
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Opinion
By News Staff 
March 1, 2023
Dear Editor: My wife and I have owned a home in Ridgway since 2004. We occupy our home approximately four to five months a year. The remainder of the year is spent at our home in Tampa. We rent the Ri...
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Opinion
By News Staff 
March 1, 2023
Dear Editor: A thank you to the Ouray City Council for not voting themselves raises. And I know that they do spend many unseen hours outside of the council meetings working for the citizens of Ouray. ...
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Opinion
By Karen Risch 
February 23, 2023
A date to keep in mind during these fierce, late winter snowstorms is March 20, the first day of astronomical spring, the vernal equinox. An even closer date, March 1, ushers in climatological spring....
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Opinion
By Carolyn Snowbarger 
February 8, 2023
What do banks in Denver, Telluride and Delta have in common? Tom McCarty robbed them in the late 1800s. Tom was the oldest child of Dr. Alex McCarty and his wife, Mary. The family of six started out i...
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Opinion
By News Staff 
February 2, 2023
50 YEARS AGO February 1, 1973 - The fits and starts of the Dallas Project (Ridgway dam) have come to a screeching halt, for the moment at least. There is no money in President Nixon’s budget, even pla...
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Main, News...
September 19, 2024
This unusually colored fawn pictured here with its twin is called a piebald deer, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife terrestrial biologist Alyssa Kircher. The white pattern is a result of a gene...
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Calendar & Events, Feature...
Sept. 19-Oct. 3 , 2024
By Erin 
September 19, 2024
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 POETRY READING: Literary Living Room presents Jeanine Renee at 7:30 p.m. at the Sherbino Theater, 604 Clinton St. Free. PRINTMAKING CLASS: Printmaking 101 for ages 12+, free, fr...
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Main, News...
Oak Street project could break ground in spring
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
September 18, 2024
The Ouray City Council unanimously agreed Monday to donate $100,000 toward an affordable housing project on Oak Street, boosting the chances it will break ground next spring. The money will go to the ...
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Main, News...
County will weigh cost savings against impacts to Whispering Pines
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
September 18, 2024
Ouray County commissioners are considering a proposal from the road and bridge superintendent for a gravel crushing operation across from the Whispering Pines subdivision that could create around a mo...
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News
Ridgway council rebuffs Wetterhorn exemption request because improvements weren't approved
By Erin McIntyre erin@ouraynews.com 
September 18, 2024
The Ridgway Town Council has rejected a request from a Wetterhorn affordable housing project homeowner to sell her home for more than the allowed sale price. This is the latest in a series of firsts f...
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