One of America's Smallest Cities Will be Getting Broadband

  The main activity in this city of between 36-50 individuals is the morning mail, the city is to remote for newspaper access.  For necessities the residents drive 90 miles to the nearest shopping center.  This western frontier-like town will be getting  federal government funding to help bring the internet (information superhighway) to this Inyo County, California town.  Like telegraph lines that once had to be strung across the West, a broadband signal has to be installed for these desert dwellers to receive a broadband signal.  The city of Darwin, California, not far from the three rural communities of, Lone Pine, Bishop, and Mammoth Lakes is now being served by the equivalent of tin cans connected to yarn.  The Government's so-called Digital 395 Project which will bring broadband infrastructure to the rural communities is targeted for completion in mid-2013, and is itself named after U.S. Interstate Highway 395 that borders the town of Darwin, California.  See also, http://www.latimes.com/.