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CHARLESTON WV — Last week at the inaugural West Virginia Broadband Summit, Gov. Jim Justice announced the preliminary approval of more than $32 million under two programs of the West Virginia Broadband Investment Plan. This announcement includes applications received under the programs Line Extension Advancement and Development (LEAD) and Major Broadband Project Strategies (MBPS). LEAD and MBPS projects announced Read More…
JUNE 26, 2023 Charleston, WV – Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced $1,210,800,969.85 in federal funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program within the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). This funding was allocated based on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) broadband coverage maps that Senator Manchin has been challenging Read More…
In honor of Digital Inclusion Week, an annual event that raises awareness about digital equity work across the country, the West Virginia Department of Economic Development announced today the award of $730,000 for the development of West Virginia’s Digital Equity Plan. The funds, which come in the form of a Digital Equity Planning Grant from Read More…
Governor Jim Justice has announced seven counties in central West Virginia are receiving grant funding to install broadband and high speed internet. The more than $17 million Phase 1 project awarded to the Roane County Economic Development Authority (RCEDA) is funded by the new Gig-Ready grant, which is earmarked from federal American Rescue Plan Act Read More…
Calhoun’s regional jail bill has been a source of contention for many years with few means of Calhoun keeping current on it until Trans Canada (The White Oak Station) began creating revenue for the County. It was with that source of funding that the county was able to begin budgeting for the extremely large Regional Read More…
The Calhoun County Commission met for their regular Monthly meeting, March 14, 2022 in the Little Courtroom of the Calhoun County Co urthouse. All three Commissioners were present, County Clerk Jean Simers, as well as over 40 citizens for a standing room only crowd. Melissa O’Brien of Thompson and Litten, an Engineering-Architecture firm, brougt a second Read More…
JANUARY 28, 2022 News Release CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, joined 10 of her colleagues in raising concerns with U.S. Department of the Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen regarding the recently announced final rule for broadband infrastructure funding through the Coronavirus State and Local Recovery Funds Read More…
