On Oct. 19, Cooperative Living magazine hosted its first-ever Halloween-themed Facebook Live event. During the live event, hosted by Tommy Campbell and Kara Emery, the viewing audience was asked to participate in a series of fun games in order to win Amazon gift card...
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...
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...
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...
Mecklenburg Electric line crews traveled to New Hampshire to help a sister cooperative.
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...
