City Council advances municipal broadband ballot question
Thursday night, the Northampton City Council approved 9-0 a first reading of a proposed ballot question on municipal broadband. It needs to be approved at one more reading, which is …
City’s municipal broadband activities move forward steadily
It’s been a couple of months since highlights of residential and business municipal network surveys were announced by Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz. Since then, activities have moved ahead steadily and …
Gazette publishes article on city’s broadband plans
The Daily Hampshire Gazette published a somewhat lengthy article on the city’s broadband plans on Thursday, with an emphasis on the general findings from the broadband study and where the …
Northampton residents overwhelmingly support municipal broadband
Nearly four hours into a lengthy City Council meeting Thursday night, Mayor David Narkewicz reported a set of preliminary statistics from the broadband survey sent to city residents and voters. …
First reading of Municipal Light Plan resolution scheduled for Thursday’s City Council meeting
On tomorrow night’s City Council meeting agenda: a resolution from Mayor Narkewicz for the City to adopt to create a municipal light plant. If created, a municipal light plant would …
Virtual Western Mass forum on community broadband shows many towns and cities are exploring municipal networks
Monday a number of local leaders participated in a virtual forum on municipal networks. Two members of the Northampton City Council attended: Bill Dwight (councilor at large) and Gina-Louise Sciarra …
New coalition OpEd in today’s Daily Hampshire Gazette!
Just in time, one of our coalition founders, Lee Feldscher of Florence, gives a list of reasons why our city needs a municipal network in a Daily Hampshire Gazette OpEd. …
WHMP Interview is now online
If you missed our interview on WHMP on Saturday it’s available online for streaming. The recording is about 45 minutes long. Many people received their city surveys. Look for it …
Coalition founders interviewed for WHMP radio show
Mark Hamill and Lee Feldscher, founding members of the Northampton High-speed Community Network Coalition, were interviewed today for WHMP’s PANORAMA show. The show runs on Saturday from 7 AM to …
Municipal network surveys now online
The City of Northampton formally unveiled two surveys on Wednesday to measure the level of support for municipal broadband. There is a survey for Northampton residents and another survey for …