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By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — As part of a national effort to assess the accuracy of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) map of broadband access, local residents are being encouraged to provide insight through a survey between June 20 and July 20. According...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Greenfield Community Energy and Technology (GCET) anticipates providing internet to residents of The Weldon apartments on High Street within two or three years, thanks in part to the receipt of a nearly $500,000 grant.GCET was awarded...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The local internet provider GCET announced that it will raise its prices by about 5% — move that General Manager John Lunt said would not alter the provider’s status as the most affordable high speed internet in the area.GCET, or...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — GCET General Manager John Lunt mapped out plans for two separate projects this week after the internet service provider received more than $1.2 million in federal grant funding administered through the Massachusetts Broadband Institute...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The Ways and Means Committee voted unanimously to recommend that Mayor Ginny Desorgher restore internet provider GCET’s budget “as close as possible” to its original $1,035,000 in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds.The vote followed a...

Spectrum has announced an expansion of its services to Warwick and Royalston, among other rural towns, through the Federal Communications Commission’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund.According to the company’s announcement, Spectrum internet, phone and...

By DOMENIC POLI

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Fifty-two students coming of age during a time enveloped by social media and online influence spoke with U.S. Sen. Ed Markey on Monday to discuss proposed legislation that would update a law enacted 26 years ago to better protect...

By BELLA LEVAVI

HAWLEY — Facing a time crunch to get the information necessary for a grant application by Dec. 11, town officials are asking the Massachusetts Broadband Institute (MBI) for more flexibility in its Gap Networks Grant Program.“We are deeply concerned...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — Despite a complicated process of working with Eversource and Verizon, a majority of the survey work in the northern part of the city has been completed, affecting Precincts 1, 2 and 9, according to GCET General Manager John Lunt.“It has...

By EMILEE KLEIN and LIESEL NYGARD

A new broadband network for Colrain, Charlemont, Heath, Leyden and Rowe that prevents major outages and improves the resiliency of internet access will be completed by June 30.The system creates three backhauls and a 10-gigabyte circuit connection...