New Hampshire Town Backs Broadband Expansion Efforts
Voters in Troy overwhelmingly voted in support of a high-speed broadband expansion that would offer residents Internet service for as little as $9.50 a month. Officials say the price would fall as more residents opt in. by Caleb Symons, The Keene Sentinel / March 12, 2021 Shutterstock
(TNS) Residents passed the full warrant at town meeting Wednesday night, including an article funding a broadband expansion project intended to provide high-speed Internet throughout town.
Voters at the Troy Elementary School gymnasium easily approved the broadband measure, 92 5.
The project will be funded by $222,311 in municipal bonds, to be repaid fully by the broadband provider Consolidated Communications via user fees. Consolidated will also contribute $1.4 million to the installation effort, according to Doug Batchelder, a member of the town s broadband committee.
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A sign supporting President Trump stands on the roadside last year in Troy, N.H. Brian Snyder/Reuters
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Officials in Troy, N.H., are keeping the doors to their Town Hall locked after news that the town s police chief attended last week s large pro-Trump protest in Washington, D.C., triggered threats of violence.
The messages have been coming more or less nonstop, Dick Thackston, chairman of the Troy Board of Selectmen, said by phone on Tuesday. He added that the Town Hall building only has one phone line.
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Off-duty cops, other officials face reckoning after rallying for Trump during US Capitol siege
Supporters of US President Donald Trump protest in front of the Capitol Building in Washington, US on Jan 6, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Stephanie Keith)
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WASHINGTON: As rioters scaled scaffolding outside the US Capitol, Roxanne Mathai held up her mobile phone to record the sea of supporters of President Donald Trump storming America’s bastion of democracy.
“We’re going in, tear gas and all,” said the 46-year-old Texas jailer.
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(Reuters) - As rioters scaled scaffolding outside the U.S. Capitol, Roxanne Mathai held up her cell phone to record the sea of supporters of President Donald Trump storming America’s bastion of democracy.
FILE PHOTO: Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump protest in front of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S. January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith/File Photo
“We’re going in,” said the 46-year-old Texas jailer, “tear gas and all.”
Mathai, a jail lieutenant and 8-year veteran of the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, approached the Capitol steps last Wednesday as rioters in front of her breached barricades.