Grants to provide high-speed internet to Mineral Springs, Blevins and McCaskill

The state of Arkansas continues to work on improving high speed broadband internet access.  Grants through the Department of Commerce’s Rural Broadband Connect program have already supplied funding for wireless internet that serves parts of the Nashville, Center Point and Dierks areas.  Most recently, grants have been awarded to the Blevins/McCaskill area and to the city of Mineral Springs.

Premier Broadband has been awarded a grant of nearly $4.8 million dollars to supply fiber internet for the city of Mineral Springs.  Their plans call for the internet to be run along Highway 27 from Nashville. 

For residents in the Blevins and McCaskill area. Southwest Arkansas Telephone has received a grant of $3.7 million dollars to extend its fiber internet from the Ozan area.  Exact addresses that will be eligible for the internet in the Blevins and McCaskill area is unknown at the present time.  City officials for the northern Hempstead County communities recently signed paperwork to make the grant official.  Work on that project is expected to be finished sometime in the fall of 2023.