More and more towns have crossed the digital divide, rolling out broadband infrastructure projects to every address in town through grants and partnerships with internet provider Consolidated Communications.“We’ve had nothing but praise,” said Mason.
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“Pretty much, Zoom is out”: Most area towns discontinuing virtual meeting participation >Published: 7/1/2021 5:13:11 PM
Virtual meetings became ubiquitous for town boards and committees over the past year. For some towns, the expiration of the state emergency order heralded a return to the pre-pandemic status quo, while other towns don’t want to give up the virtual format – and the wider access it provides.
The State stopped allowing exclusively virtual municipal meetings on June 11. Now, every meeting must have a quorum of town board members in-person at a publicly accessible venue. Once that’s established, however, boards may offer a hybrid option in which additional board members call or Zoom in. They can also provide an option for members of the public to participate virtually, or at least view the meeting remotely.
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Published: 5/2/2021 9:33:19 AM
Greenfield passed all articles at its 2021 Town Meeting Saturday, as more than 150 residents convened at the Oak Park pavilion, braving gusts of wind and blustery temperatures to motor through the warrant with minimal back-and-forth in just under two hours.
Residents passed a bond to install municipal fiber internet via Consolidated Communications 152 to 1. Broadband advocate Tom Bascom received a round of applause for his role in bringing the article to vote. It’s too soon to tell whether the bond would affect Greenfield s ability to receive funds from the latest federal infrastructure bill, Bascom said. Concord legislators are currently working on a bill for distributing those funds, and a proposed amendment would extend funding eligibility to any town without broadband as of January 2021. That would allow Greenfield to seek additional funding if it passed, he said.