‘This was a multimillion-dollar project that was paid for by the state’- Commissioner Rusty Orick

By Charlotte Underwood

JACKSBORO, TN (WLAF)- At Monday’s Campbell County Commission meeting, Commissioner Rusty Orick (center photo above) said he wanted to share the good news that high-speed internet would be available in Demory “very soon.”

“Highland Telephone Company contacted me this week, and they are getting ready to make Demory hot and it’s going online, and they want to let everyone know on the commission what the government did to get the state to do this contract with them, so the people out in Demory are going to be having some high-speed internet pretty soon. They got everything up and running and people can start applying for applications with Highland,” Orick said.

He also said he was going to get with Highland “in the next little bit” to see about doing a ribbon cutting in honor of that “service opening up out there.”

“Anybody in the Demory area that wants to apply can start applying. They told me that the Habersham part already had over 340 customers as of last Wednesday, it’s growing big. The final phase which is out Flat Hollow up the valley will hopefully be finished by December 31st of this year, so, we’ll have a new competitor here in Campbell County and people will be getting internet that have never had internet, and the commission needs to be thankful of that… I think Stinking Creek is already online, a lot of people didn’t want to touch it, but Highland did and one thing they did tell me, if you contact them, you will be talking to someone from East Tennessee,” he told commissioners to pass this information along to citizens in their district.

Highland already has an office in the old Woodson’s Grocery Store next to David Bales Automotive.

“This was a multimillion-dollar project that was paid for by the state of Tennessee, I think it was 17 million dollars,” Orick said. (WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED-03/11/2025-6AM)

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