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State Senator Mark Pody said the $100 million towards broadband expansion highlights legislative accomplishments. Pody said he was pleased to see fiscally conservative work done during this period. Pody said that serving a rural area put infrastructure at the forefront during the pandemic. “It’s disappointing that some of our students, that they were forced to stay home and they didn’t ... Read More »

A significant amount of people in Putnam County are without public water. Could the county use COVID funding to help remedy that? Mayor Randy Porter said details are not final, but the federal government indicates the answer to be yes. “Water districts, those are either city owned or they’re independently owned,” Porter said. “The water districts are owned by the ... Read More »

The Upper Cumberland is getting some attention from the state in this year’s proposed budget. State Senator Paul Bailey said that there is private investment from Charter Communications into rural broadband expansion. Bailey said that goes along with Governor Lee’s proposed $200 million. “There’s going to be $5 million invested in the Upper Cumberland area,” Bailey said. “Specifically to the ... Read More »

One thousand, one hundred and forty-five Putnam County households will be receiving access to broadband connectivity. The project is possible through Charter Communications with $92 million earmarked to over 79,000 Tennessee locations. State Senator Paul Bailey said this is a great step in providing broadband for rural communities. “There has never been a more important time to improve connectivity than ... Read More »

Two Tennessee Tech Marketing and Finance professors want to know how expanding broadcast access could impact local economies. Dr. Ferdinand DiFurio said he and Yolunda Nabors studied what impact broadband could provide for the state. “We basically studied, tried to measure those impacts in three main areas,” DiFurio said. “We looked at the impact on employment for the state, the ... Read More »