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The Dec. 16 to Dec. 17 storm is expected to bring between 10 and 36 inches of snow in New Hampshire. (Jeffrey Hastings | Frame of Mind Photography)
GRAY, ME Forecasters with the National Weather Service expect snow to continue to fall across New Hampshire at least until around 4 p.m. on Thursday with as much as three feet of snow in some areas of the state.
An updated winter storm warning, issued at just before 11 a.m., stated snow will continue with near blizzard and dangerous conditions in communities south of the Lakes Region. Low pressure will track near Nantucket this afternoon before gradually moving out to sea this evening, the alert stated. Snow will continue across the region today, with locally heavy snowbands producing snowfall rates of 2 to 4 inches per hour in some locations, mostly over southern and some central areas.
NH Business Review
First 900 customers in Sullivan, Coos counties now have high-speed access
December 17, 2020
Tom Mongeon, chair of the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative board, prepares to cut the ribbon marking the start of NHEC broadband service to the first 900 members of the co-op at an outdoor ceremony held Dec. 15 in Lempster.
Nearly 900 members of the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative now have high-speed internet service, the first step in the utility’s eagerly awaited mission of bringing broadband to the state’s rural areas.
The co-op marked completion of two fiber-optic networks Dec. 15, providing members in four towns – Lempster, Clarksville, Colebrook and Stewartstown – with access to internet services with upload/download speeds as high as 1 gigabit per second.
LEMPSTER â Work is underway in a Sullivan County town as part of an initiative to bring more reliable and high-speed internet service to New Hampshireâs rural areas that have struggled to reach individuals as life, school and work have transitioned online amid the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic.
If you have driven through the southeast corner of the county within the past two months, chances are you may have come across the site of line crews associated with CavCommâs fiber division based in New Haven, Conn., and Tilson, a national network development and information infrastructure firm, parked alongside major roadways.