State Will Spend Nearly $400 Million to Expand Broadband Services

These are exciting times for the entrepreneurial dairy-farm family that runs Redhead Creamery, an artisanal cheese producer a few miles north of Brooten in central Minnesota.

A little over a year ago, Redhead introduced its own line of spirits made from whey, a byproduct of cheese-making. That makes Redhead one of perhaps a dozen whey distilleries in the world. It began by producing an araga or “milk vodka.” This past summer, it released a bourbon and a gin. “It’s full circle, going from crops to cows to cheese to cocktails,” jokes Redhead Creamery co-owner and cheesemaker Alise Sjostrom.

Almost as exciting for her company are fiber-optic lines that, once lit, will deliver to Sjostrom’s farm a much faster and more reliable internet connection. Supplying that fiber-powered broadband will be Runestone Telecom Association, a Hoffman-based provider of telephone, cable TV, and internet services.

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