A Nevada County supervisor recently had a letter published, urging the inclusion of Governor Newsom’s seven-billion-dollar broadband expansion package in the final version of the state budget. And Heidi Hall says Newsom has now signed the legislation…

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About half the money is devoted to that. Hall hopes another two-billion dollars will augment local “last mile” connections that will connect homes and businesses with local networks. She estimates around a-third of county residents still have no access at all to high-speed internet service…

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Last month, supervisors accepted another 50-thousand dollars to add to a second round of funding for the county’s Last Mile Broadband Grant Program. It’s a total of over half-a-million dollars for four local providers, with half of that money coming from PG and E wildfire settlement funds. That’ll connect another 440 households in the next year or so.