UTILITY WORK

Apprentice lineman Nick Newell works on a utility pole while doing routine maintenance with a crew from Cherryland Electric Co-Op on Monday afternoon in Grawn. A pair of bills in the Michigan legislature would make it easier for cooperatives to build their own broadband networks and would require they give uniform access to other telecoms providers.

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