[1st-mile-nm] Internet Center Opens in Cerrillos

[Richard Lowenberg]

 Internet Center Opens in Cerrillos

 www.santafenewmexican.com/Local 
 News/Local-news-in-brief--Sept--25--2011

 Federal officials on Friday helped dedicate a community space in the 
 village of Cerrillos intended to make broadband Internet access 
 available to residents.   The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural 
 Development Agency said $550,950 was given to Agave Broadband to provide 
 the (wireless) service to the community south of Santa Fe.    The 
 department's Community Connect Program funded renovation of an old home 
 that Agave converted into the Cerrillos Internet Community Center.  The 
 center is equipped with 10 computer work stations and printers and will 
 be staffed 40 hours a week, an announcement said.   Free computer 
 training and broadband Internet access will be available to residents 
 for the next two years, the agency said.

 USDA Rural Development State Director Terry Brunner said in a news 
 release that the project "opens the door to new opportunities and 
 economic growth to students, senior citizens, small business owners and 
 others that will use these services to access all that the Internet has 
 to offer."

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 Agavue was also awarded an equal amount ($550,950) in ‘09 Rural 
 Utilities Service funds to provide wireless broadband services to the 
 community of Manzano, New Mexico. A new community center is to be built, 
 where free broadband Internet access will be offered to local residents 
 for two years. The center will also serve as the town hall and emergency 
 services facility.



-- 
 Richard Lowenberg
 1st-Mile Institute
 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
 505-989-9110 / 505-603-5200
 www.1st-mile.com
 rl at 1st-mile.com