County may go after stimulus money for broadband | coshoctontribune.com | Coshocton Tribune

COSHOCTON — Rural areas not served by the wireless broadband being deployed by LightSpeed Wireless may have hope thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Coshocton County Commissioners held preliminary discussions during a Monday meeting with Kyle Yoder, president of LightSpeed Solutions, and Tony Grech, an account executive with OneCommunity.

Both OneCommunity, a Cleveland-based nonprofit firm with a goal of extending fiber optic Internet service to schools, government and health care institutions in Ohio, and Connect Ohio, a public-private partnership that partners with technology-minded businesses, government entities and universities to bring in technology, have offered grant-writing assistance to the county, Fischer said...