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Climbers with Elevated Services from Carrollton, Ohio, scale the Verizon cell tower above a Highland Ridge water tank outside of Marietta and Lowell on Thursday. (Photo by Janelle Patterson)
Following 10 months of organization, citizen participation in grassroots needs assessment to disprove federal maps, planning and local political lobbying, the first wireless installation was completed for the Southeast Ohio Broadband Cooperative on Thursday.
Climbers braved winds and freezing temperatures, accompanied by snowflakes. Technicians spliced live fiberoptic lines and crimped connection points.
And then the first 360-degree signal went live on Highland Ridge, outside of Lowell and Marietta, and in view of traffic below on Interstate 77.