Cow Creek Fire Updates – gallery
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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Main, News...
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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Main, News...
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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News
By Erin McIntyre erin@ouraynews.com 
September 18, 2024
The Ridgway Town Council gave a thumbs up for the Green Street Sustainability Park's revised design last week, bringing months of public input and deliberation to a close. The lightning rod that attra...
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News
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
September 18, 2024
Ouray County will extend a three-year agreement for the new owners of the Camp Bird and Revenue-Virginius silver mines to plow Camp Bird Road to access the property in the winter and grant a sub-agree...
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Feature
Second-annual San Juan Slam returns to Ridgway this weekend with more competitors, games
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
September 18, 2024
For organizers of the second-annual San Juan Slam pickleball tournament, this weekend’s three-day event is all about more. More players, more games, more vendors, a more robust silent auction — in oth...
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Columns, Opinion...
PLAINDEALER EDITORIAL
September 18, 2024
We all know this year's election is a big one, nationally. But locally, we have one contested race for county commissioner, House District 58 and Senate District 6 races and a bunch of statewide ballo...
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News
By Erin McIntyre erin@ouraynews.com 
September 18, 2024
Ridgway has extended its emergency disaster order for another month as it continues to assess the damage and possible solutions for the town's washed-out diversion feeding its main water supply. Flood...
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News
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
September 18, 2024
The Ridgway Fire Protection District is debating how to involve stakeholders in a potential county-wide fire and emergency services consolidation effort, now that they’ve hired legal support. The dist...
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