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The former mill building known as Cook’s Garage, as seen from across the Housatonic River in Housatonic village. Town officials are exploring a fiber-optic broadband system for Housatonic that they believe might help attract developers and businesses to old mill buildings. EAGLE FILE PHOTO GREAT BARRINGTON — Town officials still are pressing for utility companies to tell them what it would take to build a fiber-optic hub that would help bring broadband’s gold standard into a village whose vacant mills and other old buildings cry for reawakening. With broadband, it’s rarely quick — workers have to go pole by pole to investigate the capacity of each, and learn from National Grid and Verizon what it all might cost.

Eric gabrielChristopher remboldAdam chaitJed abrahamsNational gridHousatonic improvement committeeHousatonic schoolTown plannerAssistant town manager christopher remboldSelect boardFiber connectGreat barringtonMain streetBerkshire countySouth countyMulti use studio experiment