New Cell tower coming to Pound

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Cell Tower to be Built in Pound

Tuesday, Mar 11, 2008 - 12:00 AM

BY Scott Draper
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It soon will be easier to get cell phone service in this small Wise County town.
Alltel Communications representatives and Pound officials held a ground-breaking ceremony Monday for a new cell phone tower. The 200-foot tower will be built next to the Town Hall, where the ceremony was held.
Mayor Sarah Gilliam said the tower will be a good thing for her community.
"It's just going to add to all the great things we are doing,"? she said.
Many in the town of just 1,035 residents pushed for the cell tower by signing a petition, which was sent to U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher's office. Boucher, an Abingdon Democrat, sent the petition to several cell phone companies and Alltel was the only one to respond, he said.
Boucher said on Monday he sees the cell tower as an important step in the development of rural Southwest Virginia.
"Wise County is rapidly growing. You can look across the county and see a much larger presence of retail enterprise than we had 10 years ago,"? the congressman said.
Alltel officials, who will get some federal money to help pay for the tower's construction, admitted that even if every resident of Pound uses a cell phone, they still wouldn't make money on the venture. What convinced Alltel to move forward is the growth going on in Wise County, which they said was impressed upon them by Boucher.
"We are seeing technology industry growth around the University of Virginia's College at Wise, with an industrial park that soon will accommodate an even larger number of technology-based jobs. We are attracting call centers, technical support centers and also data centers to this region, and all of these businesses that are communication-intensive, they need to have cellular telephone service,"? Boucher said.
The tower is expected to be activated in June. Boucher said he is working with Alltel to erect two additional towers in Wise County, one in Appalachia and the other in St. Paul.
The new technology also is expected to make communications easier for rescue crews and

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Quick call all the folks that are ralying against consoladation and the Power Plant I am sure they will be against this too (it change and change = BAD)



(Look over me I am in one of those moods today LOL)

[sup-rbeast]

Hell yeah....good one Counts

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Counts</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Quick call all the folks that are ralying against consoladation and the Power Plant I am sure they will be against this too (it change and change = BAD) </div></div>

While were on the subject did any one read the Bristol Herald's article on the school board meeting last night? Sounds like the loud minority is going to get their way. I liked the part where Appalachia offered up some free land to build a consolidated school in their town. I guess being closer to a college and civilization should be tossed out the window as long Appy gets to keep their school.

" I guess being closer to a college and civilization should be tossed out the window as long Appy gets to keep their school. "
How far would that site be, if it were free to the county . 1 mile to BSG and 2 miles to MECC? Big bus ride?

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Good point Spuds. If its gonna be free, they seriously need to look into it. It would be good for Appalachia, and it would almost be like an expansion of BSG the way I see it. Get some more business running through both towns possibly.

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The whole county should get behind UVA-Wise imo, it's the only chance we really have of getting any new business in here. Look at what we've got recently, it's mainly because of the college.

And what would that be? The only thing I've seen are the mines, RR, hit-and-miss call centers and the prisons. That is like saying the schools keep more than the teachers and staff working. MECC and their bunch do as much for the County, and with the training for the locals , are more needed. Not to mention the Eastman program, they are talking about spending a fortune in Kingsport again. Of course, they do spew into the air, so maybe we should close MECC and the mines too.

[pvfan]

The only towns in Wise County who have any improvement that I can see is Wise/Norton and thats because the county gave Norton the land up there where Wally World is. People need to wake up and realize that this area needs something to spark it, and the only thing we really have right now to bring people here is UVA-Wise. People aren't moving to the area to work in coal mines or the prison.