Originally from Pennsylvania, she’s a self-proclaimed “Jersey girl” who says she can’t help herself when it comes to helping others.

“I like to tell the people around here what they should and shouldn’t be doing,” laughed Joan Lombardi, a resident at Kapp Senior Residences in Flemington, New Jersey. “Most people probably think I get involved in everything, but I love helping. I’m just that person.”

Under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, as amended, the Rural Utilities Service (RUS), is considering a request for loan financing from Seminole Electric Cooperative Inc. to construct a new 573-megawatt state-of-the-art, natural gas-fired 573 megawatt (MW) (winter), combined-cycle generating facility and associated 230-kV interconnection tie-line. The Shady Hills Combined Cycle Facility (SHCCF Project) is proposed for ~14 acres on land owned by Shady Hills Energy Center, L.L.C. (SHEC) in Shady Hills, Pasco County, Florida.

William French’s family farm has been in continuous operation for more than a century, so each generation has had a front row seat for subtle shifts in the agricultural landscape of Central Virginia. Though a lot had changed since his great-great grandfather first grew tobacco on the land, the vegetable producer remained stuck in the past with expensive, slow and unreliable internet service.

Hardware Hills Vineyard is located about five miles from downtown Scottsville but might well be in the middle of its namesake river when it comes to network connectivity. Owners Andrea and Rob Nickels spent their first 10 days on the property without internet and had to schedule multiple service calls with their initial provider to address glitches in the coverage.

It’s no coincidence that the Central Virginia Electric Cooperative (CVEC) named their internet subsidiary after a small, luminescent insect. The parallels between the push to power rural homes in the 1930’s and the challenge of bringing broadband to remote areas of the state were undeniable as the company expanded its reach into telecommunications.