community is in a rural area where laying the infrastructure for broadband is costly. so when the government announced, it is allocating billions in stimulus money to bring broadband to communities, they encouraged bretton woods community to apply. we thought it was a long shot. reporter: but that was not the feeling in another part of the country. in southeastern rural minnesota, hiawatha serves a string of communities including a indian community near a power plant. they want broadband to send tornado alerts to people s homes instead of relying on the weather siren. this equipment here is dated back to the 70s and maybe early 80s. reporter: gary evans was hopeful he could change that until he got two letters from uncle sam and one from the department of commerce. unfortunately the application referenced above was not selected for funding. reporter: the letter stated that his application didn t score high enough to move forward. all award decisions are final,
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