As construction of the City of Ouray’s new mechanical wastewater treatment plant progresses, contractors have wrestled with what they’ll do with the leftover contents of the old sewer lagoons. They now have a potential solution – to spread roughly 2 million gallons of the treated sludge across 200 acres between Ouray and Ridgway.
When Ouray County Commissioners Michelle Nauer and Jake Niece toured the Montrose County Jail on June 7, their presence served as a milestone. It was the first time Ouray County commissioners had toured the facility in at least 26 years, according to Montrose County Jail Administrator Dean McNulty.
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Democratic Ouray County commissioners-elect Lynn Padgett and Jake Niece were carried to victory last month largely by Ridgway-area residents, who also helped push through a property tax increase to continue to subsidize Mountain Medical Center.
Anyone who has attended Ouray County commissioners' meetings since August may have noticed something out of the ordinary: One of the elected officials attends the meetings on a computer screen, partic.