Several weeks before the city of Ouray severed ties with its longtime marketing contractor, Mayor Greg Nelson asked professional photographer and social media manager Markus Van Meter to submit a proposal to perform those services for the city.
Ouray County will ask for permission to let restaurants resume in-person dining, and for locals to be exempt from a state 10-mile travel limit for recreation.
Visitors have been filtering back onto Ouray’s Main Street the last couple of weeks, since retail stores reopened and hotels and motels began taking reservations again.
Local municipalities are troubleshooting how they can safely accommodate outdoor dining and allow restaurants to have more outside capacity, in anticipation of Ouray County’s variance to allow in-person dining being approved by the state.
The Ouray Visitors’ Center, closed since the end of March, will reopen with the help of volunteers on Friday.
Citing a loss in revenue attributed to canceling elective surgeries and procedures related to COVID-19, Montrose Memorial Hospital announced it has laid off 19 employees after enduring as much as a S5 million loss in April.
Ouray County Attorney Carol Viner cautioned commissioners they need to be wary of becoming too relaxed during public meetings and they need to adhere to state open meetings laws, even as the pandemic drags on and meetings continue to be held virtually.
Matt and Mary FaJohn planned to take their two young boys to Iceland in March.