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What It Will Take To Bring Strong Internet Service To Every NYC Student arrow Karen Dette, left, Director of Good Shepherd Services, hands a portable internet hot spot to student Jovanny Mendez, at West Brooklyn Community High School, in November 2020 Kathy Willens/AP/Shutterstock Over the past year, the pandemic has laid bare some of the deepest inequities in education. Chief among them: the digital divide between students with reliable internet access in their homes, and those without. Now, as politicians pledge to rebuild the school system better, and stimulus dolla...

/ Nurse practitioner Daphne Gardner teamed up with community groups and the Florida Department of Health in Pinellas County to vaccinate homebound residents against COVID-19. The partnership helps residents struggling to access COVID-19 vaccines in the community. This kind of local effort could be key as demand for shots slows. Health workers and nonprofits in St. Petersburg have teamed up on a grassroots effort to vaccinate homebound residents against COVID-19. Spearheading the program is family nurse practitioner Daphne Gardner. On a recent evening, she visited St. Pete resident Charles Th...

Listen • 4:27 Nurse practitioner Daphne Gardner teamed up with community groups and the Florida Department of Health in Pinellas County to vaccinate homebound residents against COVID-19. The partnership helps residents struggling to access COVID-19 vaccines in the community. This kind of local effort could be key as demand for shots slows. Health workers and nonprofits in St. Petersburg have teamed up on a grassroots effort to vaccinate homebound residents against COVID-19. Spearheading the program is family nurse practitioner Daphne Gardner. On a recent evening, she vi...

Premium Content Subscriber only Eleven Lockyer Valley community groups have been awarded a share in almost $42k of council funding in the second round of council’s grants program. Grant applications were called for in March, with 13 requests received. Two applications, one from the Mulgowie Public Hall Association and the other from the Withcott State School P & C were rejected for not meeting the criteria. The following groups were awarded funding as part of the Major Community Grants Program. Forest Hill Community Development Association: $28750 for park seating Forest Hill State School P...

The Daily Yonder Internet Companies Don’t Want to Serve the Clearfork Valley. So Residents Are Working to Build Their Own Access A “network in a box” and a cellphone are providing the community’s first public internet hotspot. Leaders hope the project is the first step toward getting access to homes in the Clearfork Valley. Share this: Jake Resor and Mike Marlow install the internet broadcast antenna on CCI's roof. (Photo by April Jarocki) After five years of looking for someone to provide broadband internet to the rural Clearfork Valley in Tennessee and Kentucky, residents ...