We got a sneak preview of this news at the TISP meeting last week. After running into a hiccup with the ARRA-funded broadband deployment project, the Duluth News Tribune reports…

The Lake County Board of Commissioners wasted no time in hiring a new management team for its fiber-to-home telecommunications network.

On Tuesday, the board hired Jeff Roiland as the project manager. He is from Willmar, Minn., and ran that city’s En-Tel Communications network. He will be assisted by Gene South, the longtime CEO of Lakedale Communications in Annandale, which covered a wide swath of communities in west central Minnesota south of St. Cloud.

It sounds as if Board heard from a few hopefuls approach them once the need was annouced but that these guys were the best fit. Both attended the TISP meeting last week.