Gazette finally discovers South Hadley is building a community network
Ho ho ho! Just in time for Christmas, the Daily Hampshire Gazette finally gets around to telling us that South Hadley will be building their own community network. The decision …
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For some odd reason, Charlemont doesn’t want Comcast to build their community network
In case you don’t know where Charlemont is, it’s roughly halfway between Greenfield and North Adams on Route 2. Anyhow, after waiting in vain for the private sector to connect …
South Hadley getting fiber to the home – why can’t Northampton?
South Hadley is going full community network! The town of South Hadley last month approved a proposal by the South Hadley Electric Light Department (SHELD) to build a community network for …
Awesome new logo, 185 signers and counting!
Hey! We’ve changed our logo! Thanks to Davin at Paradise Copies (they are doing our brochures, petitions and sign for free!) we now have an even fancier logo! We should …
Sign our petition for a community network!
Live or work in Northampton? Want the city to create a community network that should save us at least 30% compared to what Comcast/Xfinity charges? Then sign our petition to …
New logo and outreach efforts
Thanks to supporter Tina for designing a new logo for our initiative. We plan to integrate it into this site soon. Tina also created a new Facebook page. Please like …
Mayor and City CIO to tour Westfield’s community network
Take this news as unofficial since it comes from an inside contact. We have learned that Mayor Narkewicz and the City of Northampton’s Chief Information Officer Antonio Pagan will be …
Mayor Narkewicz: hang on a few more weeks
On May 21, after a meeting with the mayor, city CIO Antonio Pagan, Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Suzanne Beck and the coalition, at the mayor’s request the …
Reminder email sent to Mayor Narkewicz
Our email to the mayor with proposed surveys was sent to him on June 18. Since we have not heard from the mayor in four weeks, we sent him another …
Surveys completed and sent to Mayor Narkewicz
We achieved something of a milestone today: completing business and residential surveys that we hope Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz will use to survey both communities. The business survey was vetted …