Economic Development and Fiber Doug Dawson, CCG Consulting The city of Gaylord, Minnesota just announced that a medical school is going to be built there. Gaylord is a small city in a rural county in Minnesota that is known more for growing Del Monte corn and producing ethanol than they [...]
RS Fiber Broadband Initiative Receives Million Dollar Grant RS Fiber Cooperative Press Release The RS Fiber Cooperative fiber optic broadband initiative will receive a grant totaling $1 million from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED). READ THE ENTIRE PRESS RELEASE
DEED Awards Broadband Grants Totaling $19.4 Million Minnesota DEED News Release R-S Fiber Cooperative, FTTH Project. Awarded $1 million to bring fiber-to-the –home (FTTH) service to 62 unserved and 536 underserved locations in Sibley and Renville counties. READ THE ENTIRE NEWS RELEASE CLICK HERE TO VIEW A MAP OF MINNESOTA that [...]
RS Fiber Broadband Initiative Gains Momentum in Rural and Agro Minnesota KEYC - Mankato News A co-op out of Winthrop is gaining momentum in their initiative to provide fiber-optic broadband service in rural Minnesota. The RS Fiber Board in collaboration with Hiawatha Broadband Communications in Winona will provide affordable [...]
RS Fiber Broadband Initiative Gaining Momentum RS Fiber Cooperative Press Release The RS Fiber Cooperative fiber optic broadband initiative will begin offering services to select areas as soon as 2015. According to RS Fiber Board Chair Mark Brandt, the collaboration with Hiawatha Broadband Communications (HBC), Winona, Minn., has made the [...]
RS Fiber Broadband Initiative Moving Forward RS Fiber Cooperative Press Release The RS Fiber Cooperative fiber optic broadband initiative is moving forward. RS Fiber’s Board of Directors recently endorsed an updated business plan and financing strategy. READ THE ENTIRE PRESS RELEASE
RS Fiber Cooperative Jake Rieke, RS Fiber Co-op Board Member Jake Rieke has a guest editorial in the Renville-Sibley Co-op Power's Newsletter: "My farm was homesteaded in 1862 and my reasons for supporting the RS Fiber project are no different than my ancestors supporting the constructions of roads, drainage [...]
Catching up with the RS Fiber Coop in Minnesota Community Broadband Networks Initiative, Christopher Mitchell Today, we interview Coop Vice-Chair Cindy Gerholz and Winthrop Town Manager Mark Erickson to get an update on the fiber-to-the-farm project. The Renville-Sibley Fiber project has transitioned from a municipal project to a cooperative. Local [...]
