The Valley Signal

The Valley Signal

2026 – PresentSee live
Steve on X

The Valley Signal covers Teton Valley, Idaho: Victor, Driggs, Tetonia, and the council, commission and planning meetings where decisions about them actually get made. I joined Wade Williams on it in August 2026, working on what readers see and share around the reporting.

When
2026 – Present
The Valley Signal

Every page is its own social card

A shared link gets a card designed for the story, not a cropped screenshot of a page. Every post, category, tag and byline has its own card, laid out like a front page with the headline, section, byline, date and lead photo, and rendered by my screenshot worker on Cloudflare: light for Facebook and LinkedIn, dark for X.

A Valley Signal social card for a story on Victor's skate park

The meetings, on the front page

The valley's public meetings are recorded and posted to YouTube. Now the front page carries the latest in a scrolling strip, so readers can watch the meeting behind the story. It reads the channel's public feed directly, view counts included, with no API key to manage, and it's cached in Redis so the front page never waits on YouTube.

The Valley Signal's YouTube strip of local government meetings

Search everything

One search across posts, pages, categories, bylines and tags, with thumbnails, and result pages with URLs of their own, so a search can be shared, with its own share image.

Search results on The Valley Signal

Under the hood

  • Tailwind CSS v4, with the templates reformatted to match

  • Dark mode that follows your system from the very first paint, with a toggle that remembers your choice

  • A reorganized newsroom admin, with avatars, consistent titles and the site's branding

  • Navigation, socials, redirects and the YouTube feed cached in Redis, shared across every worker