GORHAM — The board of selectmen and town manager Mark Shea continued their ongoing efforts to check out the town’s current “landscape” for business and citizen opportunities at the Monday, March 25, meeting.
Carol Miller, a longtime town resident who is the state’s advocate of broadband technologies for the N.H. Division of Economic Development of the Department of Business and Economic Affairs gave a PowerPoint presentation on local, county and statewide broadband availability.
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