• The Highland Games return to Grand Junction this weekend and Kate Redmond gets an update on what's planned this time around from board member Jennifer McCurdy
• Ben Katz talks with Gavin Dahl about what Western Slope Conservation Center has planned for Public Lands Day tomorrow, and how to get involved
• KGNU's Roz Brown speaks to a former regent about the impending departure of conservative University of Colorado president Mark Kennedy, after faculty and students voted to censure him

Rise early on Wednesday morning, May 26th, find a place with an open western horizon, and look up. If the sky’s clear, you’ll see the first of this year’s two lunar eclipses.

• Jerry Greene, co-founder of KOTO radio in Telluride has died
• Amber McReynolds, ex-director of Denver elections, nominated to USPS board of governors
• BLM Uncompahgre Field Office's controlled burn on Simms Mesa successful
• 'Delta Dips' construction begins next week on US 50 between Delta & Grand Junction
• Paonia Trustees enact voluntary water restrictions
• Riverside location preferred to cut costs on new Paonia skate park
• Media literacy bill on Governor's desk gives new tools to schools to help students analyze news

• Colorado will offer on-site vaccine clinics at workplaces
• Gunnison affordable housing shortage leads to packed extended stay motels
• Drost's Chocolates moves from Eckert to Delta
• Learning Council announces Pride Parade outside DCSD meeting on May 20th
• Transportation bill moving through State Capitol
• Survey finds broad support for redirecting some police funds to social services
• Kate Redmond speaks with Delta County Commissioner Don Suppes about taking over COVID policy

This week's Local Motion features reporter Laura Palmisano's unfiltered conversations with Republican State Senator Don Coram and Democratic State Senator Kerry Donovan about the busy legislative session, and bills they've sponsored that the Governor has signed into law so far. Plus, news director Gavin Dahl reviews the Local Motion programs that won awards from the Colorado Broadcasters Association and Society of Professional Journalists.

Guest Host Amber Kleinman and gardening gurus Lance Swigart and Lulu Volckhausen discuss spring gardening subjects and take your calls.

• Conservative presidents resigning from University of Colorado & Western Colorado University
• Ethics complaint against Dave Knutson on agenda for Paonia Trustees meeting tonight at 6:30pm
• Conservation groups sue BLM & USFS over North Fork Mancos Master Development Plan
• Guzman Energy, DMEA announce 80-megawatt solar energy project near Delta
• Coal transition worker assistance program now has bipartisan support at State Capitol
• Laura Palmisano reports on Rep. Lauren Boebert's stop in Lake City on Friday

• Capitol Coverage reporter Scott Franz and Colorado River reporter Luke Runyon honored with Murrow awards
• 70 teachers in MCSD nominated for Teacher of the Year
• Skate park will be the focus of Paonia in Motion design workshop on Tuesday 4-6pm at Blue Sage
• Ouray County Commissioners pause plans for two new marijuana cultivation facilities
• Lawmakers want to create new office on preventing gun violence
• Skyler Lomahaftewa, a Ute tribal member of the Uncompahgre band, is trying to bring tradition back to the Roaring Fork Valley where he lives

• 5 Mesa County residents test positive for COVID variant first seen in India
• Gov. Polis signs bill requiring State Board of Education to review civics education standards
• Rep. Lauren Boebert's press secretary sends letter to operators of satire site TheLaurenBoebert.com
• Cie Hoover's art exhibit closes tonight at Wright Opera House in Ouray
• Laura Palmisano interviews Democrat State Senator Kerry Donovan of Vail about what's she's working on this legislative session

• Governor launching new Colorado Department of Early Childhood
• Redistricting in Colorado may be further delayed by proposed legistation
• Montrose City Councilman Dave Bowman has resigned
• CDOT senior historian Lisa Schoch explains what makes Gunnison River Bridge historic
• Laura Palmisano interviews Republican State Senator Don Coram of Montrose about bills he has co-sponsored that have been signed into law by the Governor