LA Junta Tribune
Scott Peterson, a longtime Coloradan with over 40 years of experience in community development, is the new mayor of the city of Las Animas.
At the Las Animas City Council meeting June 29, Peterson was appointed mayor following a motion and a 3-2 vote. Councilman Dave Armstrong was the tie-breaking vote.
After the June 10 resignation of former Mayor Jim Collins, who held the position since 2015, Armstrong was interim mayor for the 19-day period.
Peterson was appointed over three other candidates: Terry Kim, Andrew Montoya and Frank Schmeiser. Peterson s resume . is very heavy in financials and major projects, Armstrong said. With some of the grant funding and with all the CARES Act funding and stuff that is coming down, we kind of thought that his financial background would be just an absolute asset to the things that are going on with the city. . He s very clued in as to what s going on citywide and he knows how to help.
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When Pueblo leaders speak about the effects of the Great Flood of 1921, they tend to repeat one word: resilience.
“Pueblo has a proud history. It was built by people who came all over the world to make the steel that built the American West,” Mayor Nick Gradisar said during an event commemorating the anniversary along the Historic Arkansas Riverwalk on June 2.
“They were frugal, hardworking people and just as they were beginning to accumulate many of the new things that they’d left behind when they came to Pueblo to build a new life for themselves, they were wiped out by the 1921 flood.
Mark Aliff is angling for a second term on Pueblo s City Council to retain the at-large council seat he has held since 2018. As you get older, you want to make a difference in your community and you want to serve, he said. Pueblo has been so good to me and my family as a community, and it s a huge priority for me to give back. And I do that through city council.
Aliff officially announced his campaign during the Pueblo County Republican Party s annual Lincoln Day dinner on May 1, advertising his fiscal conservatism, commitment to economic development and resume crowded with memberships on various boards and committees.