(If you like local news stories like this, consider a print or online subscription to the Tribune:Â https://wetmountaintribune.com/subscribe/) (Note, this discussion is focused on the proposed broadband towers project that has been actively ongoing for the past five years. There is a separate proposed project for an additional fiber-optic line to be brought into the Valley that is in the discussion phase.) On January 31, the Custer Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) voted unanimously to scrap going ahead with an application due that same day to the US Economic Development Administration (EDA) for a $1 million grant to fund six towers to provide high-speed broadband service to the county. The grant would have served as matching funds required by a previous DOLA grant for the six…
