Town officials last week bestowed both financial and moral support to the effort to establish a Blue Ridge Telecenter.
The N.C. Rural Internet Access Authority announced in May that it would award as many as four grants of up to $700,000 each to establish information technology centers, or ‘telecenters,' in economically distressed counties.
Since then, a group of local business, education and civic leaders has been working to bring one of the telecenters to Alleghany County, to be known as the Blue Ridge Telecenter.
The group applied for the grant last month. Grant awards are to be announced Oct. 1, with telecenters required to be in operation by January 2002.
In June the telecenter group secured an option on the former Bassett Walker building. Plans call for housing the Wilkes Community College Alleghany Campus and Alleghany JobLink there, along with the telecenter.
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