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Warm, dry spring offers chance at adaptation
Warm, dry spring offers chance at adaptation
By Karen Risch 
April 23, 2020
March 2020 in Ouray was warm and droughty, following a dry, cold February. Highs for the month averaged 47.5 degrees; normal is 3 degrees lower, 44.6. Lows were proportionately even warmer, averaging ...
Letter: Kudos to newspaper, commissioners
By News Staff 
April 23, 2020
Dear Editor: • Thank you to the Ouray County Plaindealer (their editors) for again calling out a government entity in our county (this time the Ridgway School Board) for limiting public participation ...
Letter: Health order is misguided
By News Staff 
April 23, 2020
Dear Editor: In one fell swoop the pendulum swung from one post to the other earlier this month. At the same time as the Tourism Office's contract with Ouray was expiring, the anti-Tourism Office spra...
Ouray basketball coach scores league honor
Ouray basketball coach scores league honor
By News Staff 
April 16, 2020
By Joel Priest, Special to the Plaindealer   By way of a 3-2-2-1 vote split between the 2A/1A San Juan Basin League’s basketball coaches, Ouray High School’s Craig Kaminsky was recently chosen — over...
HOP TO IT
HOP TO IT
By News Staff 
April 16, 2020
Photo courtesy Steven Scheu The Ouray Elks Lodge has hosted an Easter event for children for more than so years, and this year was no exception, even ifthe coronavirus pandemic dictated a more sociall...
All we need in life are the simple things
All we need in life are the simple things
By Willie Richardson 
April 16, 2020
Shep and I were of the same opinion that all a guy really needs in life is a full belly and a warm place to sleep. I think that the year was 1958. I would have been eight years old. Dad was a ranch ha...
Letters: A slap on the wrist
By News Staff 
April 9, 2020
Dear Editor: Once again, a Ouray County law enforcement officer gets off with a slap on the wrist on an embarrassingly serious felony charge. We refer to former Ouray County sheriff deputy/undersherif...
Mountain Chill gets OK to broadcast in Ouray
By Mike Wiggins 
March 26, 2020
Mountain Chill Radio has temporarily extended its broadcast reach into Ouray County during the new coronavirus outbreak. At the request of Ouray County, the station, whose call letters are KRKQ and wh...
LOOKING BACK
LOOKING BACK
By News Staff 
March 19, 2020
50 YEARS AGO March 19, 1970 - The annual Jeep give-away has been launched with a bang. Joint efforts of both the Chamber of Commerce, who sponsor the project and the Ouray Fireman on fund raising is e...
Virus halts basketball season
Virus halts basketball season
By Mike Wiggins 
March 19, 2020
As a freshman at Ouray School, Judah Preston discovered what it’s like to play in a high school state basketball tournament in front of a packed house, to feed off the crowd’s energy. Last week, he fo...
Ouray basketball heads to state
Ouray basketball heads to state
By Mike Wiggins 
March 11, 2020
In his first year as head coach, Adam Trujillo took the Ouray boys’ basketball team to the Class 1A state tournament. The Trojans were quickly knocked out of the double-elimination playoffs. Three ye...
Letters: Ouray can learn from Montrose
By News Staff 
March 11, 2020
Dear Editor: Thank you for excellent coverage of Ouray City Council meetings, especially letting us read actual quotes. I lived in Ouray many years and now live in Montrose for the past 18 months. I d...
Town councilor grateful for time served
By News Staff 
March 11, 2020
Dear Editor: After being elected for two terms as one of your town councilors, I have decided it is time to rededicate myself to different priorities in our county. Therefore, I have made the decision...
Superintendent created top-achieving culture
By News Staff 
March 11, 2020
Dear Editor: I was shocked, disappointed, and saddened to read that the Ouray School Board fired Superintendent Scott Pankow. Having served on the Board for eight years during Scott’s tenure I hold hi...
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Perennial renters. Globetrotters. Forced minimalists. For financial and other reasons, they've spent most of their lives moving from place to place. Now, for the first time, these new Waterview homeowners are putting down roots in Ouray.
By LIA SALVATIERRA 
December 25, 2024
When Diane Todd pulled her white Chevy pickup into the driveway of her new home in Ouray, she jumped out of the car and gave her next-door neighbor a hug. It was the first time they had met, and both ...
Season of Sharing 2024: Minerva West Theater Co.
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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 ...
Season of Sharing 2024: Ouray Teacher Fund
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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 ...
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