Wasatch Back Chatter FAQ

Wasatch Back Chatter is the Hometown Chatter site for the Wasatch Back (Summit and Wasatch 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.

Summit and Wasatch counties. Focus area: Park City, Heber, Kamas, Coalville, Midway. 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 Summit and Wasatch 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 “Partner preview — not launched. Feedback welcome.” banner until Eric unlocks. Structure, visuals, and FAQ are built now so go-live is flip-the-switch, not a rewrite.

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.