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Jan 09, 2025
(TNS)—Look up: Can you see the sky? If so, chances are good you can connect to the internet with your smartphone without the worry of dead spots. What...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 13, 2024
The digital divide — the gap between communities with and without access to high-speed internet — is a prominent issue in Pennsylvania. More than 330,...
News
Nov 29, 2022
Governor Tom Wolf announced that the Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority (Authority) released the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Statewide Br...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 21, 2022
One of the COVID-19 pandemic’s ancillary effects was the proof it provided that broadband internet service is an essential public utility rather than ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 10, 2022
According to the state of Pennsylvania, an internet connection of 1.5 megabits per second qualifies as “broadband.” That 30-year-old standard is barel...
News
Mar 22, 2022
A grant of more than $530,000 has been obtained to bring broadband to Hamlin, Keating and Sergeant townships in McKean County. The project will provid...
News
Feb 14, 2022
HARRISBURG — Broadband service improvements are needed across Pennsylvania, but the most significant need is among rural counties, according to a new ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 04, 2021
This past summer, two reports were issued that have real meaning to the agricultural community in Pennsylvania. First was a report from the U.S. Depar...
News, PA State News
Nov 16, 2021
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey highlighted Monday several benefits to Pennsylvania after President Joe Biden signed the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment a...
News, PA State News
Nov 15, 2021
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Pennsylvania could get a one-stop shop for the hundreds of millions of dollars the state anticipates getting in the coming years to...
Oct 15, 2021
Millions of Americans lack access to reliable, high-speed internet service, and the inequality is particularly striking in rural America. The rural br...
News
Sep 13, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Justin Maxson today announced that USDA is seeking...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 12, 2021
As Pennsylvania charts a path forward from the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent analysis of census data conducted by Stateline, an initi...
News
Aug 06, 2021
HARRISBURG — Three companies — including Elon Musk’s SpaceX — have been awarded federal funding to bring broadband to more than 5,300 homes in the loc...
News
Jul 08, 2021
Whether it’s for online schooling, work meetings, paying bills, ordering goods and services, watching streaming services or just keeping in touch with...
Business
May 13, 2021
QUINCY, Mass. — Atlantic Broadband, the eighth-largest cable operator in the U.S., will provide broadband connectivity at discounted prices for financ...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 12, 2021
HARRISBURG — State policymakers tend to get easily sidetracked to focus on issues demanding immediate attention. This often means the overshadowing of...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 22, 2021
In an ideal world powered by an ideal economy, extension of and improvements to America’s infrastructure would be developer-driven. But the ideal is s...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 27, 2021
Pennsylvania, like many other states, has a digital divide that separates the haves from the have-nots. And at no other time has this divide seemed wi...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 09, 2021
Rural areas across the country faced challenging development problems — which were key drivers in the past two presidential election cycles — long bef...
Lifestyles, Nation & World, Outdoors, ...
August 21, 2025
(TNS) — There seems to be a sizeable cross over market between country music fans and folks who appreciate hunting and fishing in the great outdoors, ...
Local News
August 21, 2025
An appeal hearing for a public nuisance order for 243 Jackson Ave. turned into more than 90 minutes of covering the same issues before the Bradford Bo...
Round the Square
August 21, 2025
THERAPY: Where do you go for a bit of nature therapy? We're lucky here in McKean County with so many places to choose from — Kinzua Bridge State Park,...
Lifestyles
August 21, 2025
Dear Heloise: I, too, have an issue reading the small copy on containers at the grocery store, so I use my cellphone to enlarge the copy. At 5 feet, 1...
Lifestyles
August 21, 2025
DEAR ABBY: My husband and I had two sons, "Seth" and "Jason," who were best buddies. Seth passed away a year and a half ago, which has been really har...
Local Sports, Outdoors
August 21, 2025
JOHNSONBURG — In memory of Phil Fitch, a consummate bird dog man, Rolfe Beagle Club will host the Phil Fitch Memorial Chukar Challenge from 7:30 a.m. ...
