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Videos: Development Authority appointment, VOCA grants, Coleman Road paving, LMIG, Water projects, Windstream @ LCC Regular 2025-01-15

Ms. Terri Lupo was reappointed to the 5.a. Valdosta Lowndes
Development Authority.

The Lowndes County Commission at their Regular Session of January 14, 2025, also passed everything else unanimously, with little or no
discussion.


[Collage @ LCC 14 January 2025]

Collage @ LCC 14 January 2025

Commissioner Demarcus Marshall did have a question about
7.k.
GEFA Loan DWLSL2023097 for Lead Service Line Inventory. He also
had a special thanks for Samaritan’s Purse in Commission Comments.

Former Valdosta City Council Alvin Payton, Jr., sat front and
center the entire meeting.

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, with a
few comments by Gretchen Quarterman, followed by a LAKE video
playlist.

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Gigabit fiber Internet from Vermont Telephone Company: half the price of Google fiber

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Tiny Vermont demonstrates that the Internet access most telephone
and cable companies are selling us is way overpriced for way too
little speed.


Look Out Google Fiber, $35-A-Month Gigabit Internet Comes to
Vermont (by Shalini Ramachandran for WSJ 26 April 2013)

Heads up Google GOOG +1.94% Fiber: A rural Vermont telephone
company might just have your $70 gigabit Internet offer beat.

1,000 Mbps

Vermont Telephone Co. (VTel), whose footprint covers 17,500
homes in the Green Mountain State, has begun to offer gigabit
Internet speeds for $35 a month, using a brand new fiber network.
So far about 600 Vermont homes have subscribed.

Even more interesting:

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