There are lots of reasons to love New Hampshire - beautiful scenery, hundreds of miles of trails, maple syrup, and moose, just to name a few.  Oh, and the people - they look out for their own.

I'm so proud of the tiny town of Hanover, New Hampshire, the home of my alma mater, Dartmouth College.  Hanover and seven other small Granite State towns (in some cases, villages) have joined together to discuss the possibility of a community broadband project.  Many of the region's rural residents have no access to high-speed internet (or even cable television), and even phone service leaves something to be desired in some places.  The big phone companies aren't going to come in and fix this situation any time soon (if they had any such inkling, they would have done it already), so these communities are coming together to fix the problem themselves.  Hooray for an independent spirit!

Here is an article from The Dartmouth (yes, I'm plugging my school's daily newspaper - deal) explaining the situation and the possible solution.

As more and more communities are left behind by the big telecom corporations, what else are they supposed to do than to look inward for solutions?  If you know of any other communities (small, like Hanover, or big, like Philadelphia) that have or are thinking about implementing community broadband, let us know in the Comments section, and we'll share the praise for these forward-thinkers.