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Stories in this list received the most page views on postindependent from May 5-12.

1.Colorado Parks and Wildlife tracking up to four possible wolf dens 

For wolves, the beginning of May signals the end of denning season. 



While Colorado Parks and Wildlife is tracking up to four pairs of wolves that could be denning, none have been confirmed, according to Eric Odell, the agency’s wolf conservation program manager.

“We are monitoring one to three to four pairs of animals that could be denning,” Odell said at the May 7 meeting for the agency’s commission. 



-Ali Longwell 

2. $41 million-plus settlement receives preliminary approval in class action lawsuit against TEP Rocky Mountain LLC 

A $41.7 million settlement received preliminary approval in a class action lawsuit against TEP Rocky Mountain LLC, a subsidiary of Terra Energy Partners.

The lawsuit began with a complaint filed by local enterprise Jolley Potter Ranches Energy Co. LLC in 2019. It alleges that for almost a decade TEP underpaid mineral rights owners for natural gas and hydrocarbon gas liquids collected in the Piceance Basin in Garfield County from the Grand Valley Gathering System.

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It states that TEP underpaid royalties from Aug. 1, 2011 through Dec. 31, 2020 by deducting unreasonable gathering, processing and transportation costs and/or paying below-market rates, according to court documents.  

-Julianna O’Clair 

3. Roaring Fork School District announce new assistant principals for 2025-26 school year 

Nicole Johnson (left), and Missy Britton (right) will begin their new roles when the 2025-26 school year begins in August.
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Crystal River Elementary School and the Riverview School appointed new assistant principals for the 2025-26 school year, the school district announced in a news release. 

“Roaring Fork Schools has appointed two new assistant principals for the 2025–26 school year following the district’s established hiring process for school leaders,” Tuesday’s release said. 

The two schools went in opposite directions in their hiring process. CRES looked outside the organization for a new assistant principal, while Riverview promoted from within. 

-Staff Report 

4. Teen participant in melee that led to death of 14-year-old sentenced to 2 years probation 

A year after a melee among teens at a park in Gypsum led to the murder of 14-year-old Jackson Davis, one of the youths involved has been sentenced to 24 months of supervised probation.

Jackson Davis
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The assailant, 16, was sentenced on Wednesday by Judge Rachel Olguin-Fresquez after pleading guilty to first-degree assault resulting in serious bodily injury by use of a deadly weapon, a class-3 felony. The charges stemmed from the assailant striking another teen multiple times with a baseball bat during the melee, which led to the victim being hospitalized.

Jackson Davis’ mom, Christy, lights a candle for her son during his one year memorial Friday in Gypsum.
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Davis, then a freshman at Eagle Valley High School, was also stabbed during the melee and wound up dying from his injuries. Nefi Ezequiel Armijo Hernandez, who was 16 at the time, is facing first-degree murder and other charges in the case. Set to be tried as an adult, Armijo Hernandez will receive a reverse transfer hearing in July to determine if the case goes back to juvenile court.

-John LaConte

5. Three Rifle Bear track stars break school records 

It is a good thing that record books aren’t chiseled into stone anymore, because if that were the case, Rifle High School would have quite a bit of work for a local stonemason. 

The Rifle Bears have an up-and-coming young track and field team that may not be sending as large of a contingent to the CHSAA State Championship Meet as fellow Western Slope schools, but had an equally, if not more, exciting season on the synthetic rubber track. 

Rifle senior pole vaulter Triniti Johnson stares down her competition before breaking a 7-year-old school record.
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Juniors Yadier Loya, Rylan Petree, and senior Triniti Johnson etched their names into the history of their school, all in completely different facets of the sport — Loya did it by throwing the shot put 161.00′, Johnson did it by pole vaulting 9′ 10″, and Petree did it by running the 400 meter dash in 57.80 seconds, two full seconds faster than the previous record. 

-Jaymin Kanzer 

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