Local artist Becca Doll-Tyler has her hands full — and that’s not only referring to the countless lumps of clay she regularly crafts into mugs, bowls, plates and cups. Doll-Tyler is a Ouray County pub...

Kathy O'Mara is always working on a short list of productions she thinks would be a good fit for Minerva West, the Ridgway community theater group. As the group's artistic director thought about the o...

The comedy troupe Second City returns to Ouray County this week, with two shows in one night at the Wright Opera House on Thursday (Feb. 23). The sketch and improv troupe is famous for its role as a s...

It all started with homemade dog treats. Michelle Porter Karki owned a candy shop in Silverton, and began making all-natural dog treats on the side. Then, her daughter suggested she try making dog co...

Ouray can be pretty quiet around 5:30 a.m, save for the local and visiting ice climbers, hikers and other adventurers heading up to high elevation looking to get an early start. Mark and Louise Rozich...

Not many 16-year-olds can invite others to meet him in his office. But not many 16-year-olds are Ethan Unverferth, who has already purchased his own franchise and started a business. The Ouray teen al...

Kate Singer has always been a “foodie,” and this passion led her to open one of Ridgway’s iconic breakfast spots, Kate’s Place, 16 years ago. Now, she’s handing the business off to Ouray County restau...

Moxie Mountain Guides co-owner Sheldon Kerr remembers meeting her business partner Kristen Arnold and thinking “she will be mine.” The duo met while working for Ouray-based San Juan Mountain Guides ar...

At True Glitz Salon – a name chosen to pay homage to Ridgway’s “True Grit” film fame while adding a bit of glamour – clients can enjoy a wide array of services, including color treatments and highligh...

Lu Anne Tyrrell’s mother used to say the Montrose-based photographer must have been born with crayons in her hands. “I have always been either drawing, sketching, (doing) photography, painting,” she s...

What is the cost of spreading false information? We know spreading things that aren't true can have consequences. At best, they create discomfort or inconvenience. At worst, they can be financially ru...

Any student of history knows the Dust Bowl, the decade-long disaster that ravaged tens of millions of acres of land across the southern plains of the U.S. in the 1930s, was solved through a combinatio...

Though it might be hard to imagine, within 100 miles of Ouray’s snowy San Juan mountains, Colorado wine country grapevines are sleeping and waiting for spring. Both of the state’s viticultural areas a...

Dear Editor: After reading your article regarding the new snow shoveling code, I would like to offer some opinions and to pose some questions regarding the new code. In my opinion, salt is not good to...

February 8, 1983 - EDITORIAL: Whether it begins with the parents, other adults, students, or team players — there has to be a stop to the emotional idiocies that build and erupt at our basketball game...

Dear Editor: It seems to me that all the discussions about gas stoves miss one major factor: House construction has changed. Forty years ago, I worked on indoor air quality. We measured home ventilati...

Dear Editor: The article entitled “State may create last resort home insurance option” in the Jan. 19 edition of the Plaindealer was important information for all those living in the wildland-urban in...

Dear Editor: After a nearly 5-year hiatus, I am subscribing again to the Plaindealer with the hope that it has not gone completely in the direction of other “weaklys.” In this digital age, the interne...