'People want hometown service.' | $1.2m internet grant for Nelson, Larue counties goes to small business

HODGENVILLE, Ky. — Country music plays from an old radio in the corner of the LaRue County Road Department as Cam Lasley installs a new type of wireless technology across the shop.

"Most of our work's done right in LaRue County where I grew up at," he said, drilling holes and pushing wire.

He owns Telecast Communications. Recently, the small business won $1.2 million to install internet—and he's doing it free —for nearly 2000 homes in west Hodgenville and northern Nelson County.

"It's really rewarding being able to go to certain areas and be like, 'hey, we're gonna be able to deliver you something you've never had before, and it's gonna be reliable internet,'" he said.

The funding comes from the federal Broadband Equity and Access Deployment Program, which is providing $376 million