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Haines providing Internet to 200 local customers
Most of the recent debate on
broadband access in Bradley
County has centered on the dissatisfaction with either the
major telecommunication companies’ unwillingness to serve
some areas or inability to provide a reliable product.
One local businessman said
he has been here providing service. The idea of EPB moving into
the area puts his entrepreneur- out of Chattanooga by EPB,”
ship in jeopardy with an unfair Haines said. “They have the
advantage, he said.
advantage of infrastrucWilliam Haines is
ture I do not.”
the owner/operator of
He said currently his
America Internet and
service covers 80 percent
Communications.
of Bradley County.
Haines said he has
“We started off on Red
been in the Bradley
Hill Valley Road, which
County market for two
doesn’t have cable or anyyears and currently
thing. It was dial-up or a
has more than 200
hot spot,” Haines said. “It
customers.
then went to Tunnel Hill
Haines
“I was basically run
Road, who were screaming
THe RIveR CounTIes Association of Realtors/MLS recently donated $1,000 to the Friends of the
Greenway in Cleveland. RCAR is involved in giving back to the community. From left are Amy Bales,
RCMLS board of directors; Cathy McCracken, 2015 RCMLS president; Cameron Fisher, Friends of the
Greenway; and Tara Hampton, RCAR Association executive.
Blythe
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State Community College at the
age of 19.
She said she had loved
O’Keeffe’s work for a long time.
O’Keeffe was famous for the roses
she painted in New Mexico.
“She is probably the most
famous female artist,” Lorello said.
“She did giant florals, super large
florals and very detailed. This one
isn’t detailed like hers, but it is
flattened out like hers starts to
be.”
Mackintosh also became
famous for his roses. Lorello said
the dots in her rose design are
inspired by his paintings.
“It has that little bit of the floatiness that O’Keeffe gave her
things, and the Mackintosh is
where it is grounded in that sort of
mission style from the 1920s1930s organic look,” Lorello said.
The styles of these 1920s artists
appeal to Lorello. She said her
flower incorporates these styles
“and takes them up to a modern
level.”
Lorello
was
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