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(Courtesy of Christopher Tomlinson/Daily Sentinel) Grand Junction Daily Sentinel will now be printed in Montrose: The Daily Sentinel is retiring its "behemoth" press and shifting print production to Montrose under a contract between Seaton Publishing and Wick Communications, the respective parent companies of the Sentinel and the Montrose Daily Press. The Sentinel will now be printed at the Daily Press' press plant, likely starting July 6. The Sentinel's decision came about because the "big city newspaper press," installed in 1984 when hopes were bright for an oil shale boom, is inefficient and replacement parts are not longer manufactured, Sentinel Publisher Jay Seaton said. Read our full story here. Closing arguments in Derek Chauvin trial today: The trial for the Minneapolis cop who is charged with 2nd-degree murder charges in the death of George Floyd is expected to wrap up today. Chauvin kneeled on Floyd's neck for nearly 9 minutes outside of a convenience store in Minneapolis. Medical experts and fellow police officers, including the city police chief, have testified against him at the trial. Floyd's death sparked months of protests about police brutality last summer in many cities around the country and the world. Black Americans 3 times more likely to die in police-involved shootings than white people. Police have killed 319 people nationwide since the start of 2021, including a 26-year-old woman killed during a traffic pursuit earlier this month in Delta County. Many details in the case are still unclear. A candle-lit vigil for Paige Schmidt Pierce is planned for this Friday, April 23 near the Confluence Park Bridge in Delta. (NASA/Flickr) First-ever powered flight on Mars: 117 years ago, the Wright Brothers made the first-ever successful powered flight on earth in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Today, NASA scientists are celebrating the first-ever powered flight on another planet. In a video beamed back to earth today, an experimental mini-helicopter called Ingenuity hovered 10 feet above ground before gently falling back to the surface. Ingenuity weighs 4 pounds on Earth but only 1.5 pounds on Mars, where the atmosphere is only 1% as dense and gravity is less than half as strong as our home planet QUICK LINKS Listen to our podcast Montrose Fresh, it's available everywhere podcasts are found including Apple, Pandora, Spotify and Amazon Music Remember those we've lost in our obituaries section View the letter to the editor. If you would like to submit a letter please email: editor@montrosepress.com Get today's weather forecast Check out our classifieds and explore the MDP e-editions Already a subscriber, but need to activate your digital account? Click here to create an account or call our office at 970-249-3444 and we'll get you all set up!

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