Fiber Project Could Mean Big Changes for Northern Washington

Government Technology: To upload a video to YouTube, business owner Corina Sahlin has to drive half an hour from her home in Marblemount to the Upper Skagit Library in Concrete.

Even when the library is closed, she sits outside in her car for hours waiting for a video to upload using the library’s Wi-Fi.

Sahlin is one of many who could benefit from a fiber-optic backbone being constructed over the next two years by the Port of Skagit and the Skagit Public Utility District.

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