Wednesday, February 27, 2013, marked the first-ever Connected Tennessee State Broadband Summit, an event dedicated to showcasing and promoting the positive impacts of high-speed Internet for improved job opportunities and enhanced quality of life.
This daylong event was jam packed with informative topical sessions highlighting technology’s impact on education, economic development, libraries, healthcare and public safety; and also spotlighted the work of Connected Tennessee including broadband mapping, community technology assessment programs, the Computers 4 Kids program which provides disadvantaged youth with access to technology and more. Over 100 public and private sector stakeholders from across the state were in attendance for this exciting inaugural event. Janet Johnson, Hohenwald/Lewis County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director, was in attendance representing Hohenwald and Lewis County.
The State of Tennessee is working to make affordable broadband more available to rural Tennesseans. Broadband does not include dial-up or satellite. If you currently do not have broadband available at your home or business, and feel that you would subscribe if the rates were affordable, the Hohenwald/Lewis County Chamber of Commerce wants to help.
Lewis County is home to more than twenty congregations representing most major religious denominations. Baptist, Catholic, Presbyterian, Independent, Jehovah’s Witness, Lutheran, Methodist, Seventh-Day Adventist, Churches of Christ, United Pentecostal are a few.
John A. Baker Field is located 2 miles west of city limits on US Hwy. 412.
