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The Affordable Connectivity Program was designed to help lower-income households afford their internet bill, but it is running out of funding soon. ....
Pandemic highlights broadband gaps in Adirondacks Where corporations fall short, neighbors and smaller companies have gotten inventive Tim Rowland Adirondack Explorer FacebookTwitterEmail Janelle Schwartz works at Craigardan, an Elizabethtown-area nonprofit where employees must ration their use of satellite internet. (Mike Lynch/Adirondack Explorer)Adirondack Explorer ESSEX COUNTY To Mike Hopmeier, it felt like an old-time country barn-raising. Hopmeier is president of a northern Virginia counterterrorism consulting firm who turned a Cold War thermonuclear missile site in the Adirondacks into a research laboratory. Not surprisingly, Hopmeier needed bandwidth, and lots of it. But when Spectrum checked out his location on a lonely road south of the mountain called Poke-O-Moonshine, the company gave him an estimate of $50,000 to a lay a half-mile of fiber to his lab. Hopmeier figured there had to be a better way. ....
State scales back on salt study Amended legislation will restrict public disclosures that could increase liability Ry Rivard Adirondack Explorer FacebookTwitterEmail Road salt is seen in the shed as Department of Transportation workers get snowplows ready for potential snow expected early tomorrow morning Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020 in Latham, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union SARANAC LAKE State lawmakers recently scaled back a study of road salt pollution in the Adirondacks, apparently bowing to concerns that the study could expose the state to liability from residents with unsafe water. Late last year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a law that would require the state to form a task force to examine the effects of road salt pollution in the Adirondacks. Each year, the state dumps millions of pounds of salt on roads to keep them clear of ice and snow. ....