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Plans for Harrison County High Speed Fiber Detailed
Starting in the fall, areas of Harrison County could have up to 1-gigabyte of high speed internet available.
Mainstream Fiber Networks hosted an informational luncheon Wednesday and here's highlights of what they said:
The service will be installed in the fall in a fiber ring in the Corydon area, and Mainstream will be focusing on hooking up businesses, county government and the school systems.
The fiber will be strung on Harrison Co. REMC and Duke energy poles. It will be wired directly to major users.
For residential users, as fiber is installed nearby Mainstream will use a small antenna on the pole to beam a signal to a small antenna on a home. They can beam about a 1/2 mile circumference from their line.
After the Corydon ring is complete this fall, they will run up and down Hwy. 135 and then in a larger fiber loop around the county.
Eventually, Mainstream said they expect to cover 80% of the county with high speed fiber and wireless. Other providers could branch off their system with wireless to help cover the rest.
Amazingly, this is coming at no cost to the county. All infrastructure will be paid for by Mainstream. Mainstream is doing a similar project in Brown County as BG Networking.
The fiber installed will only be 20% used at the start, to provide capacity for future growth and demand. They will install 96 1-gigabyte strands.
For residential users they usually charge $40 a month for 3 to 5 megabytes of the wireless speed. They said customers will find their rates are cheaper when compared to other services at similar speeds.
Mainstream will want to find business and residential users so they know which areas to run their fiber in the second ring. They are just starting to draw the map. If you have a big high speed need you should contact them.
To contact Mainstream, call 812-961-2838 or email Fred Price: fprice1313@comcast.net
Locally for more information, Lisa Long, executive director of the Chamber and Connect Harrison County is the local leader of this challenge at 812-738-0120. Commissioner George Ethridge is very knowledgeable as well and spoke at length on the topic.
Mainstream Fiber Networks hosted an informational luncheon Wednesday and here's highlights of what they said:
The service will be installed in the fall in a fiber ring in the Corydon area, and Mainstream will be focusing on hooking up businesses, county government and the school systems.
The fiber will be strung on Harrison Co. REMC and Duke energy poles. It will be wired directly to major users.
For residential users, as fiber is installed nearby Mainstream will use a small antenna on the pole to beam a signal to a small antenna on a home. They can beam about a 1/2 mile circumference from their line.
After the Corydon ring is complete this fall, they will run up and down Hwy. 135 and then in a larger fiber loop around the county.
Eventually, Mainstream said they expect to cover 80% of the county with high speed fiber and wireless. Other providers could branch off their system with wireless to help cover the rest.
Amazingly, this is coming at no cost to the county. All infrastructure will be paid for by Mainstream. Mainstream is doing a similar project in Brown County as BG Networking.
The fiber installed will only be 20% used at the start, to provide capacity for future growth and demand. They will install 96 1-gigabyte strands.
For residential users they usually charge $40 a month for 3 to 5 megabytes of the wireless speed. They said customers will find their rates are cheaper when compared to other services at similar speeds.
Mainstream will want to find business and residential users so they know which areas to run their fiber in the second ring. They are just starting to draw the map. If you have a big high speed need you should contact them.
To contact Mainstream, call 812-961-2838 or email Fred Price: fprice1313@comcast.net
Locally for more information, Lisa Long, executive director of the Chamber and Connect Harrison County is the local leader of this challenge at 812-738-0120. Commissioner George Ethridge is very knowledgeable as well and spoke at length on the topic.
Multi-million dollar Scott Co. Jail expansion underway
WDRB did a nice news story last night on the Scott County Jail expansion. Shireman Construction is the construction manager for Scott County on the $11.5M project.
Click here for the video/full article
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Umuganda Corydon: Morning of Community Service (Saturday, January 31st)
From Main Street Corydon:
If you love Corydon and would like to participate in its beautification, please join us on the last Saturday of the month.
January 31: First Umuganda Corydon
9:00 am: kick off at Kent Java
Noon: Wrap up celebration at Yo Mama's Pizza
We are concentrating our efforts on Chestnut Street this month.
We are asking each building owner to wash the inside and outside of their store windows, starting at 9:00 am on Saturday, January 31. We will then hang a high-quality poster in storefronts that are either empty or without window displays.
Each poster will have a positive message about Downtown Corydon, and will reflect that Corydon is a place of welcome, excellence and energy.
Background:
Last year, a friend visited Rwanda and when he returned, the thing he talked about the most was "Umuganda." It is the last Saturday of the month. A day dedicated to working together to benefit the community. Basically, it goes like this: the whole village gathers at 9:00 am and works for three hours on a project agreed to the month before. Then, at noon, everyone comes together to discuss and to decide what the project should be the next month.
Recently a friend asked me, "What is Main Street Corydon all about?" and I talked about our mission to make Corydon a place of welcome, excellence and energy. He said, "I will do whatever you need," and he gave me this example, "My landscaping at my house is beautiful because it reflects my family. But, Corydon reflects me too ... and right now the reflection is not what it should be."
From that discussion, the idea of a day of community service was birthed. Like the original Umuganda, it will be the last Saturday of each month, 9:00 am to noon.
What we need:
Citizens who are willing to come together as a community, to serve.
A wish list from the downtown building owners and business.
Examples of projects:
Putting up posters in empty store fronts, power washing the sidewalks, landscaping (there are small green spaces in Corydon where we can help), cleaning benches and turning them around to be conversational, picking up trash, painting and sprucing up storefronts, washing windows.
Please let us know if you have any ideas for beautification projects, mainstreetcorydon@gmail.com
