KNSI Radio reports…

High-speed internet is on the way for residents in western Stearns County.

Albany Mutual Telephone Association will get $7,123,175, and Arvig will get $910,537 to improve service in the area. Over $53 million in grants is being distributed to expand broadband access to an estimated 8,900 homes and businesses in Minnesota.

Twenty-four broadband expansion projects will receive grants from the Department of Employment and Economic Development’s Office of Broadband Development. The money will be used to expand high-speed broadband of at least 100 megabits per second.

DEED will open another $50 million grant round for broadband infrastructure development later this month.