GR EG RUT H A N A L L-VO LU N T E E R N O N - P RO F I T MO N T H LY N E W S PA P E R SI N C E 1 9 7 6 VO L M M X X I I N O 1 2 D EC E M B E R 2 0 2 2 F R E E TO R ESI D E N T S Gov. Baker in Ashfield: Broadband as Vital as Water by larry parnass The job...
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GR EG RUT H A N A L L-VO LU N T E E R N O N - P RO F I T MO N T H LY N E W S PA P E R SI N C E 1 9 7 6 VO L M M X X I I N O 1 2 D EC E M B E R 2 0 2 2 F R E E TO R ESI D E N T S Gov. Baker in Ashfield: Broadband as Vital as Water by larry parnass The job isn’t done, officials concede. Of the 53 Massachusetts towns deemed to be on the dark side of the digital divide a few years before the pandemic, seven have not secured full access to high-speed internet service. But 46 have, including Ashfield. With weeks left in their administration, Gov. Charlie Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito came to town December 1 to mark the progress made. Joined by scores of people involved in all aspects of the quest to expand broadband access, they climbed the stairs into Ashfield’s Upper Town Hall. Together, they recalled times of frustration. Of negotiation. And, eventually, of breakthrough. Leaders of local municipal broadband projects, including David Kulp, the town resident who led Ashfield’s fiber broad
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