When the Purple Peacock closed over the summer, Jen Norvell, Aliyah Field and Meadow Coldon lost the gallery and studio they used to make pottery and sell their work. So Norvell decided to purchase th...

Dear Editor: The nearly 300 miles of roads located within both the unincorporated and incorporated territory of Ouray County are a small but essential transportation network that serves not only the l...

  Jacob Abell may live in Nashville now, but his heart is still in Colorado. And that’s why he’s screening his films here in the Centennial State, where, by no coincidence, he and his production crew ...

  Around 50 people gathered Sunday afternoon to watch the unveiling of artist Jimmy Descant’s “The Ridgway Ride with Space to Create” assemblage art, which marks the location of the Space to Create pr...

STATE CROSS COUNTRY The Ouray, Ridgway and Silverton cross country team wrapped up its fall 2019 season with six runners from local schools competing in the 5K race in the Class 1A state championship...

  Amber Gonzales normally works at Wal-Mart in Pahrump, Nevada. But on this day, she’s standing by the table stacked with cheesecake slices swaddled in plastic wrap on plates, encouraging everyone to...

From the Ouray County Herald and Ouray County Plaindealer: 50 Years Ago October 30, 1969 - The Bureau of Reclamation plans no cloud seeding this winter in the San Juan and Uncompahgre mountains after ...

Ouray’s first mountain snow arrived rather late this year, on Oct. 3, but still managed to refresh last winter’s lingering white patch visible in Mt. Abram’s huge avalanche basin. By contrast, in 2018...

Dear Editor: We are writing this letter in support of Ridgway School Board candidate John Countryman. It seems there are two vacancies and three candidates vying for those four year positions. We rece...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: What was I watching? General Hospital? No. Jerry Springer? No. Some police show? No. It was much more sobering than that! It was a Ouray County commissioners' meetin...

Dear Editor: Yet another pitch for a YES vote for ballot issue 1A (Road & Bridge fund). Why my voice? I have been involved in the evolution of the final ballot language for several years as a member o...

I taught public school fifth graders a long time ago, sometimes called "Old School." At least it seems like it these days. However, there's one thing that never changes: reading. If you’ve been readin...

From the Ouray County Herald and Ouray County Plaindealer: 50 Years Ago October 23, 1969 - Jack Young, Ouray Police officer was given notice by Chief Harold Boyd this week that his services will no lo...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor, It's time again to decide who and what to vote for. If we listened to all the division that comes from the media covering Washington, we'd think it was impossible to...

Dear Editor, I am thrilled that Rep. Tipton has finally decided to support public lands designations in the northern San Juan Mountains. However, I do not encourage Mr. Tipton to introduce new legisla...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor, On behalf of the Ridgway Old West Fest committee, I'd like to express our appreciation to all the fest sponsors, whose support was a big part of what made the ROWF a...

Dear Editor: "In climate research and modeling, we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that long-term prediction of future climate states is no...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor, While the language of Referendum 1A may not be easily understood by all, the benefits of voting YES for 1A should be. Road projects have been woefully underfunded fo...

Dear editor I commend the Plaindealer for the recent excellent article on “Dark Skies.” If you read the article, you know that the Ridgway Town Council unanimously passed a dark sky ordinance which is...

Dear Editor: Citizens of Ouray should attend the special City Council meeting on October 29 to oppose the final passage of the flawed Twin Peaks planned unit development. This is not the time to appro...