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Originally published on March 4, 2021 5:53 am The COVID-19 pandemic has spotlighted an issue that Ohio’s rural communities have been struggling with for years: the lack of adequate broadband service. It’s particularly affected education in parts of the state like Ashtabula County. Some parents say their kids have fallen behind simply because they can’t get online from home. At the mercy of bandwidth Jennifer Jerman is a single mom of four. She says Ashtabula Area City Schools provided her kids with Chromebooks when the pandemic hit last year, but they’re at the mercy of internet ban...

Bloomberg STATE CONTINUES TO RAMP UP MASS VACCINATION SITES: Illinois plans to launch today three more mass vaccination sites, one in Springfield and two in Carbondale. The three sites will receive 4,000 doses per week with plans to administer a combined 2,700 daily doses pending increases in federal shipments, according to a statement from the governor's office.  The sites are in addition to those at Tinley Park Convention Center in Cook County and Belle-Clair Fairgrounds and Expo Center in St. Clair County. The state will also deploy additional Illinois National Guard mobile vaccination...

Snow, freezing drizzle accumulates in Nashville and Middle TN Natalie Neysa Alund, Brinley Hineman and Rachel Wegner, Nashville Tennessean Snow has begun to accumulate as another round of winter weather moves into Middle Tennessee, the National Weather Service reported.  Flurries were seen in Wilson County and across Nashville starting around 4 p.m. The NWS in Nashville tweeted that accumulation had begun at their offices in Mt. Juliet around 4:15 p.m. "The snow globe has arrived," the tweet said. Three to four inches of snow are possible in Nashville and two to three inches...

Biden's broadband plan faces a serious test case in Appalachia's digital divide, where a potent mix of extreme poverty, lack of infrastructure and poor data present tremendous hurdles to the president's dream of closing the broadband gap.

Light snow moved in Wednesday afternoon across the northwest region, but the bulk of accumulations will start Wednesday night into Thursday.