News, automatically
Regional headlines pulled from public feeds — title, outlet, link. No scraping, no republishing, always attributed. Government notices are a planned subsystem, pending source access.
Live weather alerts
Official NWS zone alerts reproduced in full from public-domain government data. Updated on every sweep.
Real local businesses
Every mapped business, office, and service from OpenStreetMap — a de-Googled local directory powered by open community data.
Always refreshing
Automated sweeps keep every subsystem current. No manual publishing step, no week-old print run.
Drop the beacon
Point it at a town or county. Marlinton & Pocahontas County, WV is the first live deployment.
It pulls every subsystem
News feeds, NWS weather alerts, the OSM business map — each is a pluggable module, more added over time.
It updates itself
Fresh sweep on a schedule. No human publishing step — the beacon does the work.
Everything links out
Original reporting stays original. We synthesize public-domain data and link competitor headlines — never copy them.
Live beacons
One town is live today. More light up as early-access requests come in.
Subsystems
Each beacon accumulates pluggable subsystems. The goal: know everything public about a place — not just its headlines.
What this is not
BOOJEE Beacon does not scrape and republish other newsrooms' reporting as its own. Competitor headlines are always linked out with attribution — the excerpt shown is exactly what their own public RSS feed exposes, never expanded or rewritten as original copy. Original synthesis is reserved for public-domain government and weather data where reproducing the source is legitimate.
- Weather alerts — public-domain NWS data, reproduced in full
- Regional headlines — title + outlet + link, no full text
- Competitor headlines — title + link only, always attributed
- Government & public notices — planned, will be synthesized from primary public records once source access is live
Request your town
Tell us the town or county you want lit up. Early-access towns get a full beacon build: news, weather, and business directory, free while we're in beta.
Automated aggregation service. Every story links to its original public source. BOOJEE Beacon does not claim original reporting on competitor headlines or regional press items — only on synthesized public-record and government-notice items drawn directly from primary sources. Business data is from OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed ODbL.