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The front entrance of Poudre River Public Library near Old Town Feb. 8. (Anna Tomka | The Collegian)

Poudre Library District earns first Star Library designation

Samantha Ye • February 23, 2021

Amid the challenges of the pandemic, the Poudre River Public Library District received at least one spark of good news: The district had achieved a three-star library status in the 2020 Library Journal...

The City Hall Meeting Tuesday night had many parts. There was an oppurtunity for citizen participation, discussion of prospective construction on East Prospect Road, and an appeal (Erica Giesenhagen | Collegian).

City to create new equity and inclusion office

Aidan Knaus • February 22, 2021

The City of Fort Collins has recently announced the upcoming creation of a new City office with a focus on equity and inclusion. The City has been holding bilingual meetings with the public in order...

(Graphic illustration by Abby Flitton | The Collegian)

City Council adopts new housing plan

Piper Russell • February 22, 2021

            Nota del editor: Puedes leer la versión en español de este artículo aquí. The Fort Collins City Council adopted the new Housing Strategic Plan...

Colorado State University student Cienna Semsak campaigns to ban single-use plastic bags in the city of Fort Collins at the Colorado State University Earth Day Festival, April 23, 2019. (Devin Cornelius | Collegian)

Prohibición de bolsas de plástico en FoCo para votación de abril

Samantha Ye • February 12, 2021

Traducción de Kati Roan Los votantes de Fort Collins probablemente tendrán una ordenanza local para la prohibición de bolsas de plástico y de un precio para bolsas de papel para las elecciones...

Founded in 1910, all that is left of the once thriving Dearfield, Colorado is the shells of buildings that once made up the downtown and the foundations of a few surrounding farm houses. At its peak in the 1920s, 600 Black farmers and families shopped, traded and attended church inside now dry, rotting walls held up by equally degraded supports. The buildings, now vandalized remnants of the dust bowl sitting along U.S. Route 34, are slowly being reclaimed by the prairie that once provided life and a new start for many. (Matt Tackett | The Collegian)

Uncovering Colorado’s historic Black agricultural community

Sam Moccia • February 11, 2021

On the morning of Jan. 12, 1918, readers of The Denver Star, the city’s foremost Black newspaper, were greeted with something curious standing out among the various political commentaries. “The...

Immigration Law Office of Kimberly Baker Medina on Feb. 6. This building was the former residence of the Thomas family. After moving to Eaton in 1910 where they had their son Virgil, John and Mamie Thomas moved to this house in Fort Collins around 1930. Mamie worked as a cook for the school district and Virgil went to Fort Collins junior high and high school. Virgil became a star offensive lineman on the team and would later go on to accept a football scholarship from Wilberforce College in Ohio and later would serve in the European theatre of World War II, fighting as an infantry corporal in Italy and Germany. John Thomas stayed in that home with his wife Mamie until he passed away around 1968. (Gregory James | The Collegian)

Fort Collins works to preserve City’s Black landmarks

Isaiah Dennings • February 10, 2021

The City of Fort Collins Historic Preservation department created a website outlining narratives around Black historic locations within the city in an effort to preserve the sites as city landmarks.  Deeper...

(Graphic Illustration by Malia Berry | The Collegian)

Man arrested, charged with first-degree murder

Serena Bettis • February 7, 2021

Fort Collins Police Services arrested 20-year-old Stephen McNeil Sunday afternoon for suspected first-degree murder. FCPS identified McNeil after responding to a report late Saturday night of an injured...

(Graphic Illustration by Malia Berry | The Collegian)

Larimer County’s COVID-19 restrictions move to Level Yellow

Noelle Mason • February 5, 2021

The Larimer County Department of Health and Environment announced on Twitter that its COVID-19 restrictions will be moved back from Level Orange to Level Yellow starting at 9:00 a.m. Feb. 6 as a part of...

Colorado State University student Cienna Semsak campaigns to ban single-use plastic bags in the city of Fort Collins at the Colorado State University Earth Day Festival, April 23, 2019. (Devin Cornelius | Collegian)

FoCo plastic bag ban approaching finalization for April ballot

Samantha Ye • February 4, 2021

Nota del editor: Puedes leer la versión en español de este artículo aquí. Fort Collins voters will likely be looking at a locally tailored plastic bag ban and paper bag fee ordinance for the April...

Colorado students who live in houses are more vulnerable to eviction than students living in other states, Nov. 10th. (Megan McGregor | Collegian)

ASCSU works to change Fort Collins’ U+2 policies

Ceci Taylor • January 28, 2021

Over winter break, members of the Associated Students of Colorado State University, including President Hannah Taylor and Deputy Director of Governmental Affairs Jesse Scaccia, discussed the U+2 policy...

(Graphic Illustration by Katrina Clasen | The Collegian)

New COVID-19 strain reported as vaccine distribution begins

Natalie Weiland • January 21, 2021

A new variant of the COVID-19 virus has been reported in Colorado by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s laboratory services. According to details released by Gov. Jared Polis...

Fort Collins Mayor Wade Troxell addresses members of the gallery calling in through a video call to voice their concerns about the nightly removal of a vigil for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other victims of police brutality built outside the Fort Collins Police Department on Timberline Road, June 2, 2020. (Matt Tackett | The Collegian)

Potyondy to fill District 4 vacancy

Isaiah Dennings • January 20, 2021

The Fort Collins City Council and Mayor Wade Troxell voted to pass Resolution 2021-007 on Jan. 12, making Melanie Potyondy the representative for District 4 to fill the vacancy ahead of the April election. District...

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