Lucy Peterson
ReporterLucy Peterson is a staff writer for the Aspen Daily News, where she covers the city of Aspen, the Aspen School District, and more. Peterson joined the Aspen Public Radio newsroom in December as part of a collaboration the station launched in 2024 with the Aspen Daily News to bring more local government coverage to Aspen Public Radio’s listening audience.
Peterson was born and raised in Denver. She moved to Lawrence, Kansas, where she studied journalism, political science, and French at the University of Kansas. While in college, she worked for her school newspaper, the University Daily Kansan, interned at BusinessDen as a Dow Jones News Fund business reporting intern, and covered the Kansas Statehouse as a reporting intern for the Kansas City Star. She moved to Aspen to work for The Aspen Times before joining the team at the Aspen Daily News.
She’s come to Aspen every summer for as long as she can remember to camp, but fell in love with skiing during her first winter in the Roaring Fork Valley.
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Rachel Richards and Katy Frisch are vying to lead the Aspen City Council for the next two years. It is a race between a career local public servant in Richards, and a first-time mayoral candidate in Frisch, both of whom have agreed on some of the issues facing the Aspen community but often differ on how to tackle them. -
The Aspen-Pitkin County Housing Authority will host two community feedback sessions next week to gather more input on its five-year strategic plan. The sessions will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 18 from 4-6 p.m. and Wednesday, Feb. 19 from 6-8 p.m. -
Aspen City Manager Sara Ott is a finalist for the city manager's position in Louisville, Colorado. -
The city of Aspen will appoint Ted Gardenswartz as the city’s municipal judge after it finalizes the contract this week. Gardenswartz was appointed the presiding municipal judge in September after longtime municipal judge Brooke Peterson announced his resignation. -
The Snowmass Village Town Council took a major step Monday toward building affordable housing by approving a minor amendment to the Snowmass Center redevelopment plan. The amendment clears the way for the town to acquire 3 acres behind the Snowmass Center, as part of a $12.5 million purchase agreement with Eastwood Snowmass. -
Aspen voters will decide between Katy Frisch and Rachel Richards as mayor in the city’s March election, electing Aspen’s first female mayor since 2007. Frisch and Richards were the only two candidates to turn in paperwork to run for mayor by last week’s deadline.
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After 30 years in public office, Rachel Richards is running for mayor of Aspen. She submitted the necessary paperwork to the city clerk’s office on Tuesday.
