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Virus cases worsen in county
Covid
Virus cases worsen in county
By Liz Teitz 
October 28, 2021
Public Health Director Tanner Kingery sees the emails and the invitations: campaign events, gatherings, events urging people to “meet your neighbors post-COVID.” But from inside his office, any kind o...
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COVID surge taxes Montrose Memorial Hospital
Covid
COVID surge taxes Montrose Memorial Hospital
By Liz Teitz 
October 21, 2021
Montrose Memorial Hospital is reporting a surge of COVID-19 cases and record patient numbers in the Emergency Department, forcing more patient transfers and longer wait times.  Instead of slowing down...
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Covid
County plans mask discussion
By Liz Teitz 
October 21, 2021
Ouray County Public Health Director Tanner Kingery asked county commissioners Tuesday to schedule a conversation about a mask mandate, prompted by a recent increase in COVID-19 cases. He didn’t recomm...
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Covid
Ouray School quarantines elementary class
By Liz Teitz 
October 8, 2021
Ouray School has quarantined the first grade class after a COVID-19 exposure, the first time the school has done so since classes resumed in August.  A member of the first grade cohort tested positive...
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Covid
Youth account for half of new COVID cases in county
By Liz Teitz 
October 7, 2021
Ouray County has reported 17 new COVID cases in the last 10 days, half of whom were children and teenagers. Public Health Director Tanner Kingery said many of the cases are members of the same househo...
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San Juan County still has COVID outbreaks, despite 99.9% vaccination rate
Covid
San Juan County still has COVID outbreaks, despite 99.9% vaccination rate
By News Staff 
October 1, 2021
By  Rae Ellen Bichell San Juan County, Colorado, can boast that 99.9% of its eligible population has received at least one dose of covid-19 vaccine, putting it in the top 10 counties in the nation,  a...
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Mask rules change at Ouray School
Covid
Mask rules change at Ouray School
By Liz Teitz 
September 22, 2021
Ouray School has revised its mask policy, allowing high school students to remove them while in classrooms due to higher vaccination rates. As of Friday, 83.3% of all high school students and 87% of s...
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Ouray School relaxes high school mask rules
Covid
Ouray School relaxes high school mask rules
By News Staff 
September 17, 2021
Ouray School has revised its mask policy, allowing high school students to remove them while in classrooms, due to higher vaccination rates.  As of Friday, 83.3% of all high school students and 87% of...
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Covid
More COVID cases reported
By News Staff 
September 8, 2021
Ouray County had 14 active cases of COVID-19 as of Wednesday morning. The most recent positive cases of the virus involve three probable cases – a woman in her 40s, a man in his 40s, and a woman in he...
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Covid
County requires masks in facilities
By Carolina Brown And Liz Teitz 
September 1, 2021
Masks will now be required in all Ouray County facilities regardless of whether someone has been vaccinated. On Tuesday, commissioners approved the mask rule in county workplace guidelines after modif...
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Covid
Vaccination rates rise as booster shots begin
By Carolina Brown 
August 25, 2021
Though Ouray County continues to confirm more cases of COVID-19, the vaccination rate also has increased recently. The county currently has 70.7% of its eligible resident vaccinated with at least one ...
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Covid
County reports fifth COVID-positive death
By Liz Teitz 
August 18, 2021
Ouray County has reported 17 new COVID-19 cases in the first 17 days of August, with more cases so far this month and in July than any month since February. The county also reported a fifth COVID-posi...
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Covid
Schools to begin year with masks
By Liz Teitz And Carolina Brown 
August 18, 2021
Both Ouray and Ridgway School districts will require staff and students to wear masks as they start the new school year, following federal guidance spurred by rising cases of the COVID-19 delta varian...
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Covid
Immunocompromised and sick: One woman’s experience with COVID
By Mike Wiggins 
August 11, 2021
It started like so many sinus infections do for Melissa Drake — with a cough and a tickle in her throat. It was a Wednesday in early July, and by Friday, Drake was convinced that’s what she was dealin...
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Covid
VIRUS CASES UPDATE
By News Staff 
August 11, 2021
As of Wednesday morning, Ouray County reported two new cases of the virus, confirmed with testing at Montrose Memorial Hospital. Both involved women in their 60s, with one who had been fully vaccinate...
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Covid
County reports fifth COVID-positive death
By News Staff 
August 11, 2021
A fifth Ouray County resident has died after testing positive for COVID-19, Emergency Manager Glenn Boyd said Wednesday.  The man, who was in his 80s and tested positive in mid-July, died on Aug. 5.  ...
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Covid
Loans help local businesses
By Liz Teitz 
August 4, 2021
Almost $14 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans were approved for Ouray County businesses since last April, with more than a third going to restaurants, hotels and others hit hard by pandemic ...
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Covid
More COVID cases reported
By News Staff 
August 4, 2021
As of Tuesday, Ouray County had four new COVID cases, according the the Ouray County Public Health Agency. Those included two fully vaccinated individuals – a woman in her 20s and a man in his 80s – a...
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Covid
County to lift emergency declaration
By Liz Teitz 
July 28, 2021
Ouray County commissioners plan to rescind the local emergency disaster declaration next week, more than sixteen months after it was adopted as the coronavirus pandemic began. The declaration gave loc...
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County seeing ‘breakthrough’ virus cases
Covid
County seeing ‘breakthrough’ virus cases
By Liz Teitz And Erin Mcintyre 
July 21, 2021
A woman in her 80s who tested positive for COVID-19 a day before she died is the county's fourth fatality connected with the virus. She had been fully vaccinated with the Moderna vaccine in February, ...
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Ridgway hotel to convert to housing
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Ridgway hotel to convert to housing
MTN Lodge owner: Change needed to sustain operations; town leaders worried
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
September 10, 2025
Ridgway’s largest hotel plans to convert to construction and hotel workforce housing for a new Four Seasons development in Mountain Village for at least the next four years. MTN Lodge signed an agreem...
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With federal funds in limbo, Ouray seeks options to reduce wildfire danger
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With federal funds in limbo, Ouray seeks options to reduce wildfire danger
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
September 10, 2025
Ouray city leaders are exploring other ways to address dead, fallen trees littering neighborhoods and hillsides now that it's unclear when a large-scale, federally funded wildfire mitigation project w...
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Interim police chief retained through Dec. 31
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
September 10, 2025
Ouray City Administrator Michelle Metteer has extended the contract of Interim Police Chief Daric Harvey through the end of the year. Harvey was hired as the interim chief in March, replacing Sgt. Gar...
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City to hear public input on wayfinding sign solutions
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City to hear public input on wayfinding sign solutions
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
September 10, 2025
The Ouray City Council will hold a work session Monday to discuss possible solutions to concerns raised by residents and business owners about new wayfinding signs installed along Main Street earlier ...
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Article about Space to Create too negative
September 10, 2025
Dear Editor: The origin and theory behind the Space To Create movement is tied to the common phenomenon where creative individuals, looking for affordable and functional space, move into semi-industri...
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