Laketown Township votes today to build a fiber optic network to every house in the township. This is an amazing project, and promises to bring great internet service to everyone.

If you haven’t been following along, here are some recent news stories:

Wood TV: Lakeshore taxpayers to vote on $8.7M high-speed Internet

MLive: Is broadband Internet a ‘basic utility?’ Voters consider high-speed tax

Holland Sentinel: Supporters tout Laketown Township fiber network project’s savings; detractors question risk

The Sentinel also published a handful of letters for and against.

• Rebecca Bruns: Laketown Township looks toward the future

• Dick Becker: Laketown NO vote for tax increase

• Mark Rubino: Vote against Laketown fiber

• Kathie McLoed: Vote NO on Laketown fiber optics
• And they even published a letter from the “Citizens Against Government Waste”

Early reports indicate high voter turnout. I’ve talked a lot with the Yes! campaign and they’ve done a lot of great work going door-to-door and educating residents about the plan. We’ll wait and see!