QA fiber optic connection completed

Swap Utah for the Chesapeake Bay and a train for a spool of fiber optic cable, and U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin said you would have history in the making on Kent Island.

Against the backdrop of the Bay Bridge and posing next to a hulking piece of trenching equipment, state and federal officials cheered the completion of a fiber optic network yesterday that will bring high speed Internet access to rural areas, including Queen Anne's County. The state is providing the spine of the network and inviting local broadband providers to tie...