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ECFiberNet, the grassroots organized venture that will bring modern day communications to central Vermont, has posted the following email to it’s public list:
After a mammoth effort, our application for financing under the Stimulus program is complete and has been submitted to the Rural Utility Service (RUS).
Atlantic Engineering Group, the design/build construction company, has agreed to begin work on crucial design/mapping work now, in order to maximize speed and momentum so that we can truly “break ground” when the money comes. The fact that AEG is willing to do undertake this phase before the money actually arrives is a testament to their faith in the soundness of the project. AEG will have three trucks in the ECFiber service area beginning in late August, surveying poles and sites to prepare a detailed cable design map. Each truck will display the ECFiber logo.
To acknowledge this first tangible phase of the project, we are holding a publicity event. This will be an opportunity for you to view the trucks and to get a project update, at 10:00 am, Monday, August 31 at the Tunbridge Town Hall. We consider the Tunbridge Town Hall to be the birthplace of ECFiber, where the first organizational meeting took place over 18 months ago.
We greatly hope that you can make it.
For more on ECFiberNet click here.
Little birdies are claiming that Governor Douglas will be there!
Given the recent news that FairPoint may have faked readiness tests prior to the Verizon buy-out one can’t help but be pleased to hear that a local grassroots effort such as this paying off so well .It shouldn’t go unnoticed that although Governor Douglas is opposed to posting road signs proclaiming stimulus projects he is often more than willing (if the little birdies of which you speak are correct )to take the time to show up at stimulus recovery events with twenty pounds of headlines stapled to his chest. He is his own stimulus sign .