The towns of Sandisfield, New Marlborough, Monterey and Tolland decided to share the pain by hiring an attorney who helped them navigate a legal pathway that would allow the towns to bid out the construction of a fiber optic network and sign a 15-year contract with a service provider to operate it.
S. 1978 authorizes the Town of Mount Washington to establish, own and operate a broadband infrastructure.
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.”
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