LINCOLN, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) - When Yvonne and Gregg Poole moved to a property west of Cortland over 20 years ago, they intended to give the old buildings on the land new life. They converted the chicken coop into a guest house. They transformed a grain elevator into a workshop. Once they moved on to the barn, requests started to come in to rent the space, and what started as a passion project became a small business.

They have hosted a bit of everything: graduations, weddings, class reunions, country markets, celebrations of life, even Thanksgiving dinner. But there have been missed opportunities, too, opportunities likely lost, Yvonne Poole says, because of crummy internet access.

The Cortland Opry House held one music workshop there but ran into tech issues and hasn’t been bac

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