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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Updated federal requirements are driving up costs for the entrance to Aspen reevaluation. Aspen City Council will review significant project updates on Sept. 22. -
The Aspen Area Community Trust will aim to make commercial properties more affordable for local businesses. The nonprofit formed earlier this year. -
RH, a luxury home furnishing company that began developing projects in Aspen alongside developer Mark Hunt in 2021, is now the sole owner of the former Crystal Palace building that is being redeveloped into an RH Guesthouse. -
As Aspen celebrates the 50-year anniversary of the pedestrian mall, officials are also thinking about the next 50 years and beyond of the mall as the city’s reserve of historic bricks continues to dwindle and the existing bricks that make up the 144,000-square-foot mall are starting to crumble. -
Early cost estimates to construct the new entrance to Aspen put the project at $300 million-400 million. -
The city of Aspen will defer construction on an early childhood education center at Burlingame Ranch in favor of bolstering existing child care providers. -
The Aspen School District Board of Education signaled it would likely support a potential ballot measure that would allow the state to retain additional tax dollars to bolster education spending. -
RFTA’s fare-free pilot boosted ridership among new and occasional riders, but leaders say adjusting fare structures — not expanding free fares — is the focus for long-term growth. -
The city of Aspen’s environmental health and sustainability department is launching a slew of grants, rebates and incentives as federal programs disappear. -
Aspen police boosted bike-safety enforcement 50% in 2025, contacting more riders as e-bike use grows, while traffic crashes fall but bike and pedestrian injuries persist, city data show trends.
