Central Vermont towns vote to form fiber optic district

Fiber Optic cable sign. Photo by Leo ReynoldsTwelve towns voted on Town Meeting Day to create Central Vermont Internet, a community fiber optic internet provider that could be up and running by 2020. The next step is forming the board and securing funding to make it happen.“I was really encouraged both by the reception I got at the town meeting on the floor in Berlin, and as results trickled in,” said Jeremy Hansen, computer scientist and Vice Chair of the Berlin Selectboard who spea