by Staff Reports | Sep 27, 2021 | Connections, Connections Archive
Empower Broadband and the Southside Planning District Commission have submitted a grant application to the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development’s Virginia Telecommunications Initiative to provide universal fiber-to-the-home broadband coverage. The...
by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer | Sep 13, 2021 | Co-op News, Featured Connections
The event, at the Gaylord National Resource & Convention Center on the banks of the Potomac River in Oxon Hill, Md., brought together about 300 co-op leaders and another 150 online from 15 states in the East and Midwest, organizers said. The regional is a milepost...
by Staff Reports | Sep 13, 2021 | Connections, Connections Archive
During the congressional recess in August, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner visited with Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative’s board members and senior staff to discuss rural broadband deployment. Warner toured one of Mecklenburg’s fiber-splicing trailers that is embossed with...
by Staff Reports | Aug 24, 2021 | Connections Archive
With Hurricane Henri approaching from the south last week, New Hampshire Electric Cooperative proactively sought assistance via the cooperative mutual-aid agreement. Without hesitation, Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative assembled four two-person crews, plus an...
by Staff Reports | Aug 9, 2021 | Connections Archive
For more than 50 years, teens from rural America have traveled to Washington, D.C., each summer for the “trip of a lifetime,” thanks to their local electric cooperatives. No thanks to a global pandemic, the Electric Cooperative Youth Tour was canceled in both 2020 and...
