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LAGRANGE – With construction season just around the corner, Mark Leu, the CEO of LaGrange County REMC, said his staff is busy making preparations to begin building a new fiber-optic network that will bring high-speed internet to rural LaGrange County. “We’re gearing up for construction,” Leu said. “We’re in the process of lining up contractors and completing the final design and procuring all the materials. At this point, we’re looking at starting construction on our backbone in the early part of June.” REMC announced it was planning to jump into the wo...

ANGOLA — Mark Leu no longer thinks of LaGrange County REMC as just an electric membership cooperative that serves a rural community. “We no longer consider ourselves an electric cooperative. We are now an electric and communications cooperative,” said Leu, CEO of LaGrange County REMC. That’s the new reality of two electric cooperatives that had humble beginnings of simply working to string wire to rural LaGrange and Steuben counties so those who lived in the country — mainly farmers — had electricity. Both REMCs are starting to work on providing fiber optics to t...