Sanpete Serves Is on Pause
For now, Sanpete Serves is stepping back from new meeting coverage. If you’ve wondered why the recaps went quiet, this is the reason, and you deserve a straight answer.
From the very beginning, this site ran on a workflow built around AI. It was the only way one person could keep up with every council and commission and coalition scattered across the whole county. AI transcribed the recordings and helped me shape them into recaps. The longer I worked that way, the less settled I felt about it, including what I keep learning about the water and energy these tools rely on. I’m not willing to build a community publication on something I’ve come to feel at odds with.
Here is where you come in. Sanpete Serves can come back the moment we have local people willing to sit in these rooms and take notes the old-fashioned way. If you care about your city council, your county commission, or whatever body meets closest to you, and you’d be willing to cover even one of them, I want to hear from you. No journalism degree required. Just a willingness to show up and write down what happened. Email info@sanpeteserves.com.
Thank you for reading and for caring about this county. I would rather pause and get this right than keep going in a way that doesn’t sit well.
Information About Sanpete Serves
Sanpete Serves is an independent, digital-first publication covering Sanpete County, Utah. We do two things: we turn government meetings into clear, readable coverage, and we maintain the most complete guide to community resources in the county.
We cover city council meetings in Ephraim, Manti, Mount Pleasant, and Gunnison. We cover Sanpete County Commission sessions. We track all three Sanpete Cares Coalitions (North Sanpete, Sanpete, and Gunnison Valley) operating under the Central Utah Prevention Coalition. We translate what happens in those rooms into reporting you can actually use.
Our Community Resource Directory is a maintained, verified guide to every service and program available to Sanpete County residents. Food assistance, mental health support, youth programs, veteran services, family resources, medical help, and more. All in one place. All free to access.
A family in crisis should not have to attend a noon coalition meeting to find out what help is available. A resident should not have to sit through a two-hour council session to learn what their government decided. That information belongs to everyone.
Who We Are
Sanpete Serves is founded by Mariah Tyler Moore, a journalist and author embedded in Sanpete County. The publication operates under Radical Resilience LLC and is built in partnership with community organizations including the Sanpete Cares Coalitions (facilitated by Jocie Rojas at the Central Utah Prevention Coalition) and the Satellite Sanpete Chapter of the Rotary Club.
All content is free. We do not charge for the resource directory. We do not put news behind a paywall.
Our Format
Every government meeting recap follows the same structure: what happened, why it matters, and what comes next. The resource directory is organized by category and updated as new information surfaces through coalition meetings and direct verification.
For our full editorial standards, see our Ethics and Standards page.
Contact
Email: info@sanpeteserves.com
