PLAYING THE HOUSING LOTTERY – gallery
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By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
January 8, 2025
In the shadows of the Uncompaghre Gorge, Sonya Wilson carefully swung her ice axe and kicked her crampons up a frosty pitch. Hooked into belayers watching from above, neighboring climbers treading up ...
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By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
January 8, 2025
A Ridgway man was killed Tuesday after being caught in an avalanche while backcountry skiing near Red Mountain Pass. Ouray County Coroner Glenn Boyd identified the victim as 57-year-old Donald Moden J...
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Philanthropists commit $900K toward purchase of Ouray's Swiss Village
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
January 8, 2025
The people who climbed the stairs at the Ouray Community Center and filled the seats inside the City Council hearing room carried the heavy weight of worry and desperation with them. The mother of two...
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News
Public can meet Furstenfeld, Hoguet, Valerio Jan. 16
By Erin McIntyre erin@ouraynews.com 
January 8, 2025
The search for Ouray's new police chief has yielded three finalists for the position — three career law enforcement officers with varying experiences, all living in the region. Community members will ...
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New analysis finds no likely impact to ice park, but work will pause during festival
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
January 8, 2025
Blasting for a private homeowner’s garage project resumed Tuesday in the side of a mountain above Ouray, with operations paused for the upcoming Ouray Ice Festival due to safety concerns. The project ...
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Voters approved Proposition 123 in 2022 to provide dedicated funding, but county entities still sorting through state's application standards
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
January 8, 2025
Ouray County’s local governments and developers are still working to draw from the state’s first stream of dedicated affordable housing dollars mainly by updating and aligning housing needs assessment...
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By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
January 8, 2025
More than two years after securing conditional rights to access water from Canyon Creek, the Ouray Ice Park is about $200,000 away from finishing its $1.4 million campaign to tap into that water suppl...
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Annual competition pairing horses with winter sports returns Friday-Sunday at fairgrounds
By Erin McIntyre erin@ouraynews.com 
January 8, 2025
The sport marrying Western horse culture with slope shredders returns to Ridgway this weekend, with the ninth annual San Juan Skijoriing competition at the Ouray County 4-H Event Center. Riders on hor...
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Columns, Feature...
By SUE HUSCH 
January 8, 2025
I had a delightful conversation with Sue Young after the Second Chance Humane Society shelter manager let me know that she has been a star volunteer for years, walking dogs, helping at adoption events...
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Columns, Opinion...
By Carolyn Snowbarger 
January 8, 2025
Put Ophir, Colorado, on your exploration bucket list for this summer. At 9,695 feet in elevation, this off-the-beaten-path community is seven miles southwest of Telluride and 10 “adventurous” miles fr...
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Looking Back, News...
OURAY COUNTY
40 YEARS AGO
January 8, 2025
January 10, 1975 – Jan. 27 is the date in 1950 when Ouray City Hall was almost totally destroyed by fire of undetermined origin that broke out late that night and left only three walls standing of the...
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