In the city, a network using cable modems and coaxial cable connected City Hall with the swim center, the library, the water treatment plant and the public works facility this spring. In the schools, new equipment and wiring now make possible experiments with two-way interactive distance learning. One such experiment this year involved Canby High students, along with students from Molalla High and from Clackamas Community College, in a college-level mathematics course taught by a Clackamas instructor.
Many small towns strive to keep the world at arm's length.
Not Canby, Oregon. Located 25 miles south of Portland, this town of 9,000 sits just beyond the urban fringe. And yet, it stands at the forefront of telecommunications innovations that will make it easier for more people to work from home. Canby Telephone Association and its affiliate, North Willamette Telecom, the city's cable company, began to lay the groundwork for becoming a telecommunity in 1993. That's when they announced a long-range program to build a broadband network.