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KVNF's Andrea Castillo interviews Sophie and Tucker of the musical duo SOFI TUKKER before their sold out DJ set at the Belly Up in Aspen.

Today we take a mindful look into people pleasing.

The Fruita Arts Recreation Marketplace, or FARM, is the new home for roughly two dozen arts-based business ventures. The thirteen thousand-square foot commercial building in Fruita opened this past weekend, according to the Daily Sentinel. Nineteen nurses at Delta Health were honored with nominations for The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses to recognize the nursing care they provide patients and families each day. The Montrose Red Hawks wrestling team took no prisoners this past weekend at the wrestling regionals in Durango, reports the Montrose Daily Press. The Red Hawks won the regional competition ahead of Pueblo County and Roosevelt High School. More than 22,000 acres were bought in our region by the Wild Animal Sanctuary to create a safe space for wild horses. The refuge will be in Craig, Colorado, in the northwest part of the state.

A joint law enforcement operation conducted in Montrose on February 9 and 10 identified and arrested an individual for soliciting child prostitution. Telluride’s long-anticipated youth center could break ground as early as this spring. Colorado Mesa University acquired the former Albertson’s grocery store for three point five million dollars in December. A new ordinance recently passed by Paonia’s town council seeks to clarify language in the town’s water moratorium. While the town of Paonia has been working on cleaning up it’s ordinance language, a more urgent issue has surfaced. Up to 10% of Paonia's daily water is allegedly being lost due to a single water leak recently discovered under the town's railroad tracks. Last November, the Navajo Nation elected its youngest President ever, and the first female vice President to hold that position.

CDOT and Colorado State Patrol are asking drivers to follow lowered speed limits on Interstate 70 after a series of crashes caused extended closures on the highway. Paonia is losing approximately 10 gallons a water per minute due to a critical water leak under nearby railroad tracks, reports the Delta County Independent. Mesa County Valley School District may close three of its schools next year due to declining enrollment, reports the Daily Sentinel. The popular school loop of the River Park Trail near the Paonia K8 was recently closed to the public in-order to protect wildlife.

Today we take a mindful look at Silence.

Mishe Skenderova is an Oncology acupuncturist and student of Death and Dying. KVNF's Taya Jae visits Mishe at her home in Marble, CO where she shares how she is de-stigmatizing the conversation around Death and Dying with 'Expiration Dinners' and more conversation about death, in community.

The Telluride fire district is taking to voters for a mill levy increase in May, and if approved, the ballot measure would add $3.6 million in revenue annually, reports the Telluride Daily Planet. Hotchkiss Town Trustee Patricia Medina was arrested on a DUI vehicle accident, the North Fork Merchant Herald reported Tuesday evening. Crews in Montrose are stacking 54 already completed hotel rooms, or modular units, into place on the new Fairfield by Marriott hotel at the Colorado Outdoors complex, the Daily Sentinel reported. Ouray County elected officials are seeking a pay raise in the next election cycle due to high cost of living, according to the Ouray Plaindealer. County commissioners voted to pursue a salary increase for commissioners, clerks, treasurers and assessors by almost 18% and sheriffs by around 14%, effective after the next election cycle for each official. Republican lawmakers in some parts of our region are pushing to limit what books children can access in schools and public libraries. The Mountain West is seeing more snow than it has in years…which means more powder-hungry skiers and snowmobilers heading for the backcountry.

The Town of Paonia will close its search for a new town administrator next Monday, reports the Delta County Independent. Olathe High School heavyweight wrestler Lynessia Duran was the second-highest placer among all Western Slope teams, reports the Montrose Daily Press. Tuesday was the last day for the public to submit comments on Colorado's plan to reintroduce wolves. Many ranchers and others in rural areas say they fear for their jobs, livestock, and even personal safety.

A man wanted in Utah was detained in Delta County Jail after he allegedly drove toward an officer’s vehicle at a high rate of speed. The number of unhoused and unsheltered people is rapidly rising in Grand Junction in recent years, according to a report released by the Common Sense Institute this week. On today’s KVNF Farm Friday we learn about carbon smart ag and carbon farming.