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Otis officials relent, schedule public meeting on cell tower amid ongoing criticism


A test balloon can be seen to the left of center in his photo taken from Great Woods Road in Otis. The test was run April 14, at a height of 180 feet. The town is considering leasing a cell tower site to Verizon Wireless. 
PROVIDED BY MARK LAMANNA
OTIS — More than 70 people piled on to a Zoom meeting this week to explore a topic that never really came up. Only the topic of the topic did.
And that spurred the Otis Select Board to schedule an “informational meeting” on a disputed cell tower proposal for the Big Pond area.
Though the tower was not on the board’s agenda Tuesday, many dozens tuned in, after an alert went out that the issue might be broached during discussion of the May 18 annual town meeting warrant. In recent meetings, residents have appealed to the board to devote a whole meeting to the question as a decision by the board draws near. ....

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Towns ask state to improve reliability of 'middle mile' internet network | Local News


Citing recent problems, leaders of more than a dozen publicly owned broadband systems are asking a state tech agency to make the “middle mile” network more reliable, preventing service gaps that leave people in rural areas without phones as well as internet access.
The state, in response, says towns are in a position to find solutions as well, by working with the network’s operator and their internet service provider.
“It’s going to take some money and some time, we acknowledge that,” Jim Drawe, executive director of WiredWest, wrote in a letter this week to Carolyn Kirk, executive director of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. WiredWest represents towns that used state money to build fiber networks. ....

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