By Plaindealer Staff Report 
September 1, 2022
Editor’s note: The Plaindealer has continued the tradition we’ve had the last few years of inviting new teachers at both Ridgway and Ouray school districts to introduce themselves in the paper. We ho...
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By News Staff 
August 24, 2022
50 YEARS AGO August 24, 1972 - At the Ouray County commissioner public meeting Monday the zoning ordinance requiring a “green belt” in each subdivision was changed. It now reads that subdivisions in l...
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By News Staff 
August 24, 2022
Dear Editor: Aug. 26, 2022, marks the 102nd anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by which American women won the right to vote and solidified their right to run fo...
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By News Staff 
August 24, 2022
Dear Editor: The proposed new Ridgway housing development adjacent to the Vista Terrace neighborhood named Four Winds at Ridgway Subdivision, LLC is an example of a development that just doesn’t make ...
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By News Staff 
August 24, 2022
Dear Editor: We are writing to support and thank the Ouray library co-directors for hosting the drag queen story hour. As parents of two, we are protective of our children. We know that one of the mos...
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By Plaindealer Staff Report 
August 24, 2022
Editor’s note: The Plaindealer has continued the tradition we’ve had the last few years of inviting new teachers at both Ridgway and Ouray school districts to introduce themselves in the paper. We ho...
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By Liz Teitz 
August 24, 2022
As customers browsed inside Humble Mountain, the new store at 824 Main St. in Ouray, co-owners Kim Kelly and Amy Winterrowd offered up insights into the products: those skincare products are made in D...
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By News Staff 
August 18, 2022
A reader once told us he loved buying a Plaindealer out of the newspaper rack because it felt to him like he was winning something, like dropping coins in a slot machine and watching three cherries li...
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By News Staff 
August 18, 2022
Dear Editor, We would like to give a sincere thank you to Ouray County sheriff's deputy Luis Perez for assisting us when our vehicle broke down Sunday, Aug. 7, on a curve on extremely busy Highway 550...
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By News Staff 
August 18, 2022
Dear Editor: I hope some of the road crews are reading the Plaindealer so I can thank them for the awesome new paving and striping, and such smooth, quiet roads! They are working long, very hot days w...
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By News Staff 
August 11, 2022
After the silver panic of 1893, most mines in the northern San Juans shut down. Many prospectors and miners gave up and left the high country, but not John Walsh. He believed there was gold in the Imo...
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By News Staff 
August 11, 2022
Dear Editor: Thanks, TABOR, I appreciate the refund I just got from the State of Colorado. So, what is TABOR, and why the refund? In 1992, Colorado voters approved the TABOR amendment, or the Taxpayer...
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By News Staff 
August 11, 2022
Dear Editor: Once again, the Ouray County commissioners have demonstrated their hostility to county citizens and citizen input. A county citizen, Richard Wojciechowski, presented the commissioners wit...
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By Sue Hirshman 
August 11, 2022
The Bluebird carries the beautiful color that cheers our soul. – John Burroughs When I moved to Ouray County, I was surprised to see both Western and Mountain bluebirds. I saw my first male Mountain ...
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By News Staff 
August 4, 2022
Dear Editor: It can often feel like state and local decision-makers are beyond the reach of everyday people. The 2022 Colorado legislative session was proof that representatives will listen when regul...
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By News Staff 
August 4, 2022
Dear Editor: I expected better from our county commissioners at the marijuana ordinance work session last week. After years of ignoring pleas from families living near cultivation facilities, the Boar...
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By Erin McIntyre 
July 28, 2022
A little taste of Colorado wine country has opened its doors in Ouray. Some folks might not realize the state's two grape-growing regions are only a day trip from here, and now visitors can sample ro...
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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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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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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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