SHELBURNE — The Shelburne Grange No. 68 will honor military veterans with a short program on Wednesday, Nov. 15, at 6:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall, 17 Little Mohawk Road (opposite the Shelburne Fire Station).
A western Massachusetts VA representative will provide an update of VA benefits.
There will also be a short program about military history concerning presidents and movie stars, along with some military humor. Refreshments will be available.
All veterans and their families are welcome to attend.
HEATH — “This is the meeting we’ve been waiting for forever,” declared Selectwoman Sheila Litchfield, as town officials gathered Tuesday morning with representatives of Westfield Gas & Electric (WG&E) to hear about the process for the town’s broadband build-out.
Whip City Fiber project engineer Joe Parda, senior architect Richard Carnell and Nick Sarnelli of Precision Valley Communications laid out plans for surveying poles and designing a web-like network.
An early step was to locate where the 9-by-16-foot “hub” is to be located.
Parda said the network will basically be a “spoke-and-hub” design, in which a centrally located concrete building will house the equipment and all the fiber connections.
“Whip City Fiber” is the name used by WG&E for their broadband business, and Whip City Fiber technicians will soon be seen throughout Heath as they begin field work and route-mapping engineering in preparation for the fiber optic network design of the town’s broadband.
For more information, call Town Coordinator Kara Leistyna at 337-4934, ext. 0 or by email at: bos@townofheath.org