In his letter to the editor, Carl Stewart writes, of the passage of funding for a broadband network in Alford and the establishment of a committee to manage the system: "In one of the least transparent processes I've seen in the many years that I have been in municipal government, the voters, as one of our wisest town officials said, drank the Kool-Aid."
You may wish to take a more direct approach to the practice. If you have a back yard: stop mowing it. There are edible plants there waiting for their chance to bloom, so to speak.
They are replacing a plan where the WiredWest co-op is saying there will be repayment, with a plan where there is absolutely not going to be a repayment. They will be stuck with the debt service for 20 years.’
-- Tim Newman of New Marlborough, WiredWest spokesman
Paul worked on studies involving endangered species, such of the Northern Spotted Owl, and performed various computer simulations and data analyses that were important for the forest industry to sustainably manage their land.
I love how Alford has managed to maintain its identity, call it cachet, since the 18th century. With its perfectly proportioned, white steepled church, clapboard town hall and one room school house, it appears set in a time capsule.
Ninety-three percent of Alford residents indicated they would sign up for high speed Internet, and if town voters favor the proposed broadband network, Alford will be online by 2017.
Convinced that Internet access is as essential modern living as electricity, the Alford Broadband Committee is well along the way of determining the process by which the town could build and organize a high-speed Internet infrastructure. Information meeting August 8, at 10 a.m. at Town Hall; vote on project Monday, August 10, at 7 p.m.
John worked as a farm hand on The Great Pine Dairy, Alford Road, Great Barrington where his father John H. Sr. was the Dairy Farm manager. The farm and estate were owned by the Blodgett Family until the land was given to the current owners, Bard College at Simon’s Rock.
