(Graphic by Janelle Patterson)
In less than three weeks, more than 200 households between Adams and Salem townships will have access to national-standard internet speeds off of two antennae to be installed on the Highland Ridge Water Tower.
How?
On Thursday, the Washington County Commissioners approved a memorandum of understanding to allocate federal CARES Act stimulus dollars to the Southeast Ohio Broadband Cooperative with the financial support of $50,000.
David Brown, a founding member of the cooperative, was notified by the Times on Thursday that the allocation passed.
“That money is going to go to putting up our very first site and we have chosen (that site) based on what we found out from the speed test and availability,” explained Brown.
Decatur City Schools going virtual until 2021
Decatur City Schools going virtual until the new year By Tiffany Thompson | December 10, 2020 at 10:49 PM CST - Updated December 10 at 10:52 PM
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - More than 800 students and 100 teachers from the Decatur City School system are in quarantine as of Thursday, according to school leaders.
That number pushed school administrators to move to virtual learning starting Monday, December 14th.
School administrators said with so many teachers out in quarantine they simply don’t have the manpower to operate some of their buildings.
Decatur City Schools Superintendent Dr. Michael Douglas said they hoped to make it through Christmas with the current learning plans, but those plans quickly changed.