ST. CLAIRSVILLE Local communities have some new tools to help officials secure federal resources. This was one matter discussed during the third annual Appalachia Forward conference hosted by Belmont College on Wednesday and put on by the Ohio Mid-Eastern Governments Association, Ohio University, the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, and the Interagency […]
ST. CLAIRSVILLE Local communities have some new tools to help officials secure federal resources. This was one matter discussed during the third annual Ap
BETHESDA A long-standing issue in the village will be rectified soon, with an expected improvement to a busy intersection. Belmont County Port Authority
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Nicholas Hunter, CEO of Fiber Capital Partners, announces a countywide initiative to bring broadband internet access to Belmont County in the next few years.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE Broadband internet may be coming to Belmont County soon, with the announcement that a fiber company and provider will be installing infrastructure.
Nicholas Hunter is CEO of Fiber Capital Partners, a fund management business that brings in private capital investment to build infrastructure in communities that lack it. He said his family business in Warren County has been active there.
“Our genesis in this project was we were seeking to really build fiber to the home internet systems for our own community, because we were not getting help from anybody else. We had been told multiple times there would be no reinvestment,” he said. “We realized that if we weren’t going to do it, nobody else was, so we went ahead and took on that onus of responsibility and decid