{"id":50304,"date":"2020-11-21T00:51:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T07:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-fasttrack-providing-free-internet-at-boyle-park\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:50:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:50:54","slug":"mancos-fasttrack-providing-free-internet-at-boyle-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-fasttrack-providing-free-internet-at-boyle-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos, FastTrack providing free internet at Boyle Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=4cd335e5-410b-4563-9824-3522de75a7fb&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" alt=\"Free Wi-Fi at 100 Mbps per second is now available from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Boyle Park in Mancos through a partnership with FastTrack Communications and the town.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Free Wi-Fi at 100 Mbps per second is now available from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Boyle Park in Mancos through a partnership with FastTrack Communications and the town.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Free Wi-Fi at 100 Megabits per second is now available from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. at Boyle Park in Mancos through a partnership with FastTrack Communications and the town.<\/p>\n<p>Rachael Marchbanks, Mancos\u2019 economic development coordinator, said planning for the Wi-Fi project began during a discussion between Mancos Town Administrator Heather Alvarez and FastTrack CEO Kelly Hebbard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we became aware that schools would be doing more learning from home, we were worried that a number of kids in our area have inadequate internet service,\u201d Marchbanks said.<\/p>\n<p>From Alvarez\u2019s and Hebbard\u2019s conversation, the partnership emerged in which the town would purchase equipment to provide the Wi-Fi in Boyle Park, the town\u2019s main park south of town hall, and FastTrack would provide free service for one year.<\/p>\n<p>Mancos paid about $4,300 for the equipment and installation of equipment that included tamper-proof mounting boxes and radios to broadcast the signal.<\/p>\n<p>According to a survey by the Mancos School District, 20% of the district\u2019s families said they lacked reliable internet service at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re doing this at no cost. We want to be a good partner, and we understand that there are so many kids who may get left behind since they don\u2019t have connectivity yet,\u201d Hebbard said. \u201cThis will also enable any teachers to bring their classroom outside, in the nice weather, and they can get their studying done at the park.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:parmijo@durangoherald.com\">parmijo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>100 Mbps offered from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,275,83,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-50304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-internet","tag-mancos","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87721,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50304\/revisions\/87721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50304"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=50304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}