The financial outlook for Ouray was bleak at the beginning of the pandemic, as state health orders forced people to stay home in mid-March, when this photo was taken.
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Sales tax revenue soared in 2020
When the streets of Ouray emptied out last March at the outset of the pandemic and 4o percent of the city’s meager sales tax receipts in April stemmed from online shopping it was hard not to envision 2020 being an unmitigated financial disaster for a place that can’t survive without tourists.
By June, however, people anxious to ...
