US grant to spread Net access

By Hiawatha Bray - The federal government will pay $45.4 million to help bring high-speed Internet service to about 1 million underserved residents of Western Massachusetts.

“This is huge,’’ said state Senator Stan Rosenberg, an Amherst Democrat and president pro tem of the state Senate. Rosenberg said that the new network will help revitalize the economy of his district in the western...