How this site works: what it covers, where every number comes from, and why it isn’t live yet.
Castle Country Chatter is the Hometown Chatter site for Castle Country (Carbon, Emery, Grand, and San Juan counties). We publish local alerts, high school scores, mountain bike results, good news, trails, and local deals — real numbers and official sources only. We are part of Hometown Chatter; sister live region: DixieChatter in Southern Utah.
Carbon, Emery, Grand, and San Juan counties. Focus area: Price, Helper, Castle Dale, Huntington, Green River; Canyon Country section for Moab, Monticello, Blanding. Content outside those counties belongs on another Utah region site or the national hub.
We post verified scores and records as soon as an official source confirms them. Sources: UHSAA and the school’s own athletics pages. We never use MaxPreps. Cards stay empty until a number is verified. Every posted score shows a timestamp (America/Denver) and the named source.
Utah High School Cycling League / NICA results come from utahmtb.org and RaceResult only. Local races need an official posted result. We do not invent placements or times.
Alerts come from NWS, UDOT, and local emergency offices for Carbon, Emery, Grand, and San Juan counties. Each alert card shows when we last checked and the issuing agency. Clear or expired alerts are removed or labeled — we do not leave stale warnings up as current.
This region is in partner preview (noindex) with a visible preview banner — not launched. Structure, visuals, and FAQ are built so full unlock is flip-the-switch, not a rewrite. Feedback welcome.
Hometown Chatter is local-first news for Utah regions. Editorial rule: cite the source, use real numbers, publish fast, no fluff. Photos are either ours or free public-domain / openly licensed images with credit on the page. Income is AdSense and platform payouts only — we do not sell ads into the feed.
Every social post about a story should open the page that story lives on. We write unique local copy; we do not boost or buy placements until there is a revenue path Eric approves.