About Brookings View

Brookings Register, the town's newspaper, closed in August 2025. Since then, there's been no single place to find out what the city council decided, what's happening at the library this week, or when the Jackrabbits play next. Brookings View is an attempt to fill that gap: a local news site for Brookings, assembled automatically from public sources -- city and county meeting agendas, the library and city calendars, and official alerts.

How it is made

Software checks the sources listed below on a schedule -- most hourly, some daily or monthly depending on how often they change. New items are summarized in plain language by an AI language model, working only from what those sources say, and published without a person reviewing each one first.

That means no one is reporting from the ground here. Nothing on this site is a firsthand account -- no one attended the meeting, walked the site, or talked to anyone involved. Every summary is a machine-written digest of a public document or feed, always linked back to that original source so you can read the full thing yourself. Read the full, source-by-source breakdown on how we gather this.

What you won't find here

Brookings View doesn't cover arrests, court records, or obituaries. That's a deliberate choice, not an oversight: this site exists to tell you what's happening in your town, not to follow anyone through a hard moment in their life. If you're looking for that kind of coverage, you won't find it — by design.

Who built it

I'm one person, building this in my spare time outside a day job, because Brookings didn't have a site like it. I'm not a journalist and I don't live in Brookings -- I write software, from Sweden, and this is what that looks like pointed at local news. I'd rather say that plainly than dress up an automated site with a fake masthead.

I run the same software pointed at a few other towns too: Moreno Valley View and Broomfield View. Same pipeline, same sourcing rules, same disclosures -- just a different town's public records feeding it. Saying that plainly here rather than having each site look like an independent operation.

Sources

Everything on this site traces back to one of these, checked on a schedule and never altered beyond the plain-language summary:

Corrections

Automated summaries occasionally get something wrong. Errors are corrected as soon as they're reported -- use the contact form to flag one.