{"id":86315,"date":"2025-08-16T03:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/86315\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T03:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:45:10","slug":"blair-county-leaders-celebrate-funding-for-rural-broadband-project-in-juniata-twp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/86315\/","title":{"rendered":"Blair County leaders celebrate funding for rural broadband project in Juniata Twp."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BLAIR COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) \u2014 On Friday morning, in Blair County, a ribbon cutting ceremony was hosted by Alleghenies Broadband Incorporated to celebrate the completion of part of the Capital Projects Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers tell 6 News that the fund is financed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in partnership with Crowsnest Broadband.<\/p>\n<p>Officials with Alleghenies Broadband said they&#8217;re excited to bring high-speed fiber optic internet service to rural Juniata Township.<\/p>\n<p>Dustin Biship, Alleghenies Broadband Inc. Project Manager, said, \u201cA lot of folks in this area have little to no internet whatsoever, so now they&#8217;re getting top of the line, the best of the best internet connection that money can buy. It really is game changing, no other way to say it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zimmerman said the whole project should be wrapped up by end of spring this coming year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BLAIR COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) \u2014 On Friday morning, in Blair County, a ribbon cutting ceremony was hosted by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[59519,59518,59517,39753,3108,174,59520,3234,46439,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-86315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-alleghenies-broadband","9":"tag-blair-county","10":"tag-capital-projects-fund","11":"tag-fiber-optic","12":"tag-high-speed-internet","13":"tag-internet","14":"tag-juniata-township","15":"tag-pennsylvania","16":"tag-ribbon-cutting","17":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}