Purpose
Serve the community
MtVernon.net is designed to help residents, visitors, organizations, and local businesses discover useful community information in one trusted place.
Editorial Policy
Community information with care, clarity, and accountability.
This starter policy establishes how MtVernon.net should handle submissions, updates, corrections, sponsor content, and civic information as the site grows.
Review
Human judgment first
Submitted events, listings, stories, and resources should be reviewed before publication for relevance, tone, safety, and basic accuracy.
Corrections
Fix visibly and quickly
When information is outdated or wrong, the site should correct it promptly and keep a simple internal note of major changes.
Guidelines
Publishing standards for launch.
- Label sponsored or partner-supported placements clearly.
- Avoid publishing sensitive personal information without permission.
- Prefer official or directly submitted source material for civic listings.
- Keep story and guide language community-minded, non-inflammatory, and useful.
- Use the submit flow for intake, then review before publishing.
- Maintain a simple correction path through the contact page.
Submission handling
Events, listings, stories, and alerts should enter through a review queue.
This v11 starter policy is intentionally simple. As the platform grows, it can expand into formal editorial roles, approval stages, and a public corrections log.
Send an update for review
Use the submit page to provide events, listings, story ideas, resource suggestions, and civic updates.