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Beaver Island townships schedule a joint meeting on short-term public broadband access, 2019

Also Beaver Island public broadband pools proposal 2019 · Telecommunications Advisory Committee short-term broadband proposal 2019

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TypeEvent
Date2019-09-25
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
2019-09-25
Kind
Public meeting
Where
Beaver Island
Carried out by
Peaine Township Board of Trustees
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
communicationsbroadbandinfrastructuregovernance
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

In September 2019, Peaine and St. James Townships scheduled a joint meeting to hear a Telecommunications Advisory Committee update and proposal for short-term high-speed broadband “pools” at key island locations. The proposal followed earlier fiber-planning and TrueStream demand-gathering efforts.

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The forum preserves the meeting notice and planned livestream, but not the proposal text or any record of approval, funding, locations, implementation, or service performance.

Sources

  1. The meeting notice said the Telecommunications Advisory Committee would present an update and proposal for short-term high-speed broadband service pools at key island locations; a follow-up said Beaver Island News on the Net and Beaver Island TV planned to livestream the meeting. The thread does not preserve the proposal, approval, funding, locations, or implementation outcome.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 14 · t014700
  2. The Society’s community letter said it was one of eight anchor institutions working toward interim pools of 200 Mbps symmetric service at key locations, including the Library, Community Center, museums, township buildings, school, health center, transfer station, and municipal docks. It describes an institutional plan and proposed capability, not approval, installation, availability, or measured performance.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 15 · t015327

Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island townships schedule a joint meeting on short-term public broadband access, 2019”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-townships-short-term-broadband-pools-proposal-2019/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, “Special St James Township/ Peaine Township joint meeting @ Peaine Township Hall,” September 22–25, 2019. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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