• 4 horses killed in car accidents on 550 on Thursday
• School board candidate forums are scheduled for Grand Junction, Austin, Montrose next week
• Dual Immersion Academy principal Monica Heptner awarded by Latino Chamber of Commerce
• Republican Lauren Boebert violated federal campaign finance laws, used campaign funds for rent, bills
• NPR TV critic Eric Deggans speaks with KVNF's Gavin Dahl about the new documentary Summer of Soul, directed by Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson, opening tonight at the Paradise Theatre in Paonia

• Montrose School District now screening for COVID symptoms upon arrival at all schools
• Only 22% of schools are enrolled in state's weekly COVID testing program
• Delta County revamps COVID dashboard
• Delta County School Board candidate forum scheduled for Surface Creek Church in Austin on 9/28
• Colorado raising home health care workers' minimum wage to $15/hour
• Kate Redmond speaks to Mark Chalmers, CEO of Energy Fuels, about processing rare earth materials at White Earth Mill in Utah, plus Ute tribal member Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk

• Colorado now offering rapid, at-home COVID tests directly to residents
• Advantage Treatment Center at community corrections complex in Montrose is a COVID outbreak site
• About 1 in 99 people in Colorado is contagious with COVID, the highest rate this year
• Colorado Congressmembers urge FCC to add text option to national suicide prevention hotline
• State economists boost revenue expectations
• Census Bureau identifies risk factors in the way of community resilience during disasters
• Scientists identify Colorado rivers, streams to protect

Host Jill Spears and gardening gurus Lance Swigart and Lulu Volckhausen discuss last-day-of-summer gardening topics and take your calls.

• New Redistricting Commission state legislative maps make dramatic changes on Western Slope
• Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters retains attorney Scott Gessler, former Secretary of State
• Norwood may cap short-term rentals at 3, total
• Six candidates are running for two seats on Delta County School Board
• Samaritan Johnny Hurley was killed by police in Arvada, coroner confirms
• Comedian Alex Hooper talks about going on tour during the pandemic, his new book & his comedy special ahead of Healthy Rhythm Gallery gig this Saturday in Montrose

• BLM HQ moving back to DC
• Tina Peters back in Grand Junction
• Colorado GOP votes not to opt out of open primaries
• Radio host dies of COVID after urging boycott of vaccines
• Montrose Memorial Hospital losing employees over vaccine mandate
• Hospitals in our region implement crisis standards of care
• Hesitancy hardens to resistance for half of Colorado's unvaccinated
• Supply chain disruptions hit farmers hard
• Yvette Henson explains how CSU extension office helps farmers & gardeners 
   

• AG Phil Weiser finds pattern of racially biased policing & excessive force at Aurora PD 
• Congressmember Lauren Boebert: God should remove Democrats from office
• Montrose County approves $33M expansion of the airport
• Shay Coburn leads progress by Delta Planning Commission on comprehensive plan
• Gunnison & Garfield County school districts reinstituting mask mandates
• Linda Gann, Kelly Fox plead with Montrose County School Board to protect kids with mask mandate

 Grand Mesa Observatory. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the old, small building on top of the mesa where the chipmunks live!