When Boy Scout Jacob Bond of Troop 14 in Sparks saw that one of the biggest expenses for families going back to school was supplies- the notebooks, binders, pencils, and backpacks to carry students’ belongings- he decided to do something about it. “Where I go to school, we have kids coming from everywhere. For the most part the kids are pretty stable but the older kids need … [Read more...]
USDA Brings Broadband to Nevada’s Frontier Towns
USDA Rural Development People living in small Nevada towns, like Dyer, Lund, Duckwater, Mina, Currant and Tuscarora, have been waiting a long time for Internet to arrive. In these rural areas, broadband signal once was out of the question. Now, at least in a few towns, that has changed for good. When work began nearly 20 years ago to bring broadband into the most remote … [Read more...]