Dear Editor: I just learned that our amazing Ouray County Public Health Director Tanner Kingery will be moving away soon. I would personally like to thank Tanner for his incredible leadership throughout the unprecedented pandemic times. He and his staff helped us navigate the uncertainty with up-to-date information, access to the most current vaccines and testing, and well-organized clinics. They did (and do) it all with kindness and compassion, even.
The updated COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for over two weeks now. The CDC recommends that “everyone aged five or older” receive a single dose of the newly reformulated Pfizer-Biotech
Montrose resident Len Cribbs resembles many who reside in this region. “We live here,” Cribbs says in a three-minute video recently posted by the Montrose County Health Department to its
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.
For the last three years, COVID-19 has dictated and dominated most, and at times all, of the day-to-day business at the Ouray County Public Health department. In the height of the pandemic, that meant serving as the primary testing source in the county, running drivethrough test sites and coordinating daily testing.