The dry conditions were beginning to raise alarms, said Norm Dalsted, an agriculture economics professor at Colorado State University.

Colorado State University merchandising students are setting up the boutique and design students will be on site to make alterations, Valdez said.

“If we could get one of these once a week until the first of May, we’d be in pretty good shape,” said Nolan Doesken, the state climatologist at Colorado State University.

Poudre School District and Colorado State University shut down around noon, as did city and county buildings.

The University of Colorado in Boulder and Colorado State University in Fort Collins shut down early.

Five members of the CSU Tour Dance Company, along with Associate Professor Chung-Fu Chang, will showcase their work this spring at Merida, Mexico’s X Festival International de Danza Contemporanea Avant Garde 2009.

Former Colorado State University head football coach Sonny Lubick, sacked two years ago after 15 years at the helm, is working again for CSU.

Fees for commercial building permits and plan reviews in 20 Front Range cities and counties range from a high of $72,465 in Boulder County to a low of $31,275 in Greeley, according to a study released Wednesday by the Colorado …

Fees for commercial building permits and plan reviews in 20 Front Range cities and counties range from a high of $72,465 in Boulder County to a low of $31,275 in Greeley, according to a study released Wednesday by the Colorado …

Fort Collins has among the lowest development fees among 20 cities and counties in the state, according a new study from Colorado State University’s Everitt Real Estate Center.