Addison County, Vermont · Since 1946

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  • High-speed internet rollout picks up steam

    High-speed internet rollout picks up steam

    Addison County’s nonprofit provider of high-speed fiber-optic internet service, Maple Broadband, has in 2024 already more than doubled its customer base, and more than doubled the miles along…

  • Nonprofit internet arrives in the county

    Maple Broadband, Addison County’s nonprofit internet provider, has connected its first nine customers to high-speed, fiber-optic service in parts of three towns — Cornwall, Salisbury and Middlebury.

  • Letter to the editor: Broadband fiber-optic cables are ‘visual pollution’

    In the name of progress we have repeated the errors of the past and again uglified our beautiful rural county with this regressive monstrosity of a cable network.

  • New high-speed internet coming to 14 towns

    New high-speed internet coming to 14 towns

    The nonprofit internet provider Maple Broadband began work in early October stringing fiber-optic lines that will bring high-speed service to up to 1,400 underserved or unserved households in…

  • Maple Broadband gets $8.7M for buildout

    The Vermont Community Broadband Board on July 15 awarded Maple Broadband an $8.69 million grant that will allow the Addison County nonprofit internet service provider to start building out its network…

  • Letter to the editor: Satellite internet is a better answer

    Vermonters would be remiss if they did not mention sluggish internet among the state’s top economic woes.

  • $2.3M grant to help county internet provider

    The nonprofit internet provider Maple Broadband was awarded $2.3 million on Oct. 4 by the newly formed Vermont Community Broadband Board (VCBB) to fund its critical “preconstruction” phase.

  • Ferrisburgh considers water, broadband for ARPA money

    FERRISBURGH — The Ferrisburgh selectboard last week decided to wait before making a contribution from its federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to county nonprofit internet provider…

  • Bristol considering ARPA fund choices

    BRISTOL — Bristol officials have begun brainstorming ways to spend the $1,148,473 in federal COVID relief funding the town has been designated to receive through the American Rescue…

  • County internet utility finds partner, seeks funding

    ADDISON COUNTY — Nonprofit internet provider Maple Broadband has signed up 20 Addison County towns to accept its service, and has just reached a deal with Waitsfield Champlain…