About Broomfield View

Local newspapers have been closing or shrinking all over the country, and small and mid-sized cities are often the first places to lose the kind of coverage that keeps residents in the loop. Broomfield View is an attempt to give Broomfield a single place to find out what's happening: a local news site assembled automatically from public sources -- city meeting agendas, the library and city calendars, county records, and official alerts.

How it is made

Software checks the sources listed below every 6 hours. An AI language model summarizes new items, working only from what those sources say, and automated checks run before anything publishes. Items go live without a person reviewing each one, and no one reports from the ground: every summary is a digest of a public document or feed, linked back to the original 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

Broomfield 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 Broomfield didn't have a site like it. I'm not a journalist and I don't live in Broomfield -- 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: Brookings View and Moreno Valley 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.