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Dixon mentions one of the three current applicants for federal stimulus funds, which proposes to build a fiber-optic “backbone” through the county, which he thinks could be used to connect to wireless broadband access points, “which is probably the best solution for this rolling terrain.”
“People need to work, they need to take classes, they’re on call, and . . . it’s time we got some high-speed Internet,” he says.
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