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The Tombigbee Electric Power and Fiber currently has 19 members in western Kentucky.

PONTOTOC - No formal contract is in place, but two, rural co-operatives plan to work together to ensure that residents in eastern Pototoc County will have broadband internet serice by

Company leaders announced the collaboration today.

TUPELO • Thieves stealing connection boxes to a fiber optic cable internet system in Lee County have caused almost $100,000 in damages so far.

Tap boxes look like black boxes. Tombigbee puts the boxes on power poles as part of its broadband infrastructure.

City officials this week allowed an electronic cooperative in Northeast Mississippi the option to use its utility poles to provide broadband services more efficiently to some Tupelo residents.

TUPELO • City officials this week allowed an electronic cooperative in Northeast Mississippi the option to use its utility poles to provide broadband services more efficiently to some Tupelo residents.

Ilion Deputy Mayor Charles Lester agreed to step down from that post this week but remains on village board. Lester and mayor receive suspicious mail.

Two retired firefighters have been banned from the Ilion firehouse after a shouting match erupted at the Village board meeting.

The flag had flown above the Capitol earlier this year and was presented by Congresswoman Claudia Tenney to members of the Elks Lodge in a special ceremony Friday.