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According to Crowley/Otero Health Health Director Rick Ritter, that's no accident. "It's been a long road," Ritter said. "It's been arduous and difficult and just, you know, we're all ready for it to be over. And we're getting closer. We just need to keep doing what we're doing. Doing our part to make sure we keep the rates down. And it's (not just) individuals — we don't want people to get sick — but businesses depend on us. "We don't want to see any of our businesses go the other way and have to have less customers and be shut down. Nobody wants to see that. It's like I say in our upda...

Chaffee County will move to the blue level on the COVID-19 dial at 6 a.m. Wednesday, downgrading from yellow.

As of press time Tuesday evening, one could squint at the lawn in front of the offices of The Chaffee County Times on East Main Street and see scattered sprigs

As of press time Tuesday evening, one could squint at the lawn in front of the offices of The Chaffee County Times on East Main Street and see scattered sprigs of green grass venturing out of the earth otherwise covered in last seasons’s dry yellow shoots. While Chaffee County, like The Times’ lawn, isn’t quite ready to green just yet, on Wednesday it did move from the Yellow level on the state COVID-19 dial to Blue, representing a relaxation of pandemic restrictions as vaccines are distributed and the county, state and nation grow cautiously optimistic. “The chamber is so...