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BrightRidge tree trimming work to require Browns Mill Road lane closure
JOHNSON CITY – Weather permitting, BrightRidge tree trimming contractors will be working along Browns Mill Road from the intersection of Carroll Creek Road to the intersection of Chickasaw Street on Monday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. This maintenance work to improve system reliability will require a lane closure. Motorists are advised…
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Motorists should expect rolling roadblocks due to utility work on Sunday and Tuesday
JOHNSON CITY – BrightRidge will be pulling static wire across Interstate 26 near University Parkway on Sunday, June 14 from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. as well as conductor wire on Tuesday, June 16 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on TN Highway 36/North Roan Street near the intersection with West Oakland Avenue. Both projects…
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BrightRidge invests another $50,000 in RegionAHEAD fund; challenges other utilities to match
JOHNSON CITY – BrightRidge Board of Directors voted unanimously Tuesday evening to invest another $50,000 with the RegionAHEAD fund to assist small businesses as the region begins to fully reopen the economy, while issuing a challenge to other regional electric utilities – public and private – to match the investment.
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BrightRidge, TVA issue Renewable Energy Certificates to BrightRidge Solar customers
JOHNSON CITY – After a full year of electric generation at the region’s first solar farm in Telford, BrightRidge and the Tennessee Valley Authority are issuing 840 Renewable Energy Certificates to 62 BrightRidge Solar participants, including Washington County Schools. Constructed in partnership with BrightRidge, TVA and Nashville-based…
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BrightRidge invests $50,000 in RegionAHEAD fund; partners with TVA on Heisse Johnson Hand Up Fund
JOHNSON CITY – BrightRidge Board of Directors voted unanimously Tuesday evening to invest $50,000 with the RegionAHEAD fund to assist struggling small businesses and partnered with the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Community Care Fund to enhance aid to residential customers through the Heisse Johnson Hand Up Fund.
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BrightRidge moves to electronic meetings amid COVID-19 public health concerns
JOHNSON CITY – Operating under authority of Executive Order 16 signed Friday by Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, BrightRidge will now conduct all Board of Director meetings electronically at least through the duration of the Order. BrightRidge, organized as a public political subdivision of the State of Tennessee, will conduct its meetings…
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BrightRidge Suspends Walk-In Service
JOHNSON CITY – Due to the unprecedented circumstances in our service area, BrightRidge will close its walk-in customer service lobby effective Monday, March 23, 2020. BrightRidge urges all customers to use its online and phone-based customer service options or drive-through lanes at its 2600 Boones Creek Road offices. In addition…
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BrightRidge reports 29th clean independent audit as utility inaugurated broadband service
JOHNSON CITY – BrightRidge continued a nearly three-decade record of strong financial control as independent auditors issued a clean audit this week with no findings or deficiencies in financial record keeping in Fiscal Year 2019 even as BrightRidge launched a new Broadband Division. “Consistent, transparent financial…
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Traffic stoppages scheduled Thursday night & Friday morning for State of Franklin Road
JOHNSON CITY – BrightRidge will be pulling new conductor wire across State of Franklin Road near the intersection with Med Tech Parkway requiring intermittent traffic stoppages from 8 p.m. Thursday, December 19 continuing through 6 a.m. Friday, December 20. Johnson City Police Officers will control the State of Franklin Road…
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BrightRidge Broadband honored with Calix Innovation Award at national conference
SAN JOSE, Calif – When BrightRidge Broadband set about building a nation-leading 10Gb fiber optic network, it began with a few simple mandates. The system must be redundant with multiple linkages to the internet backbone, robust and flexible. Those principles have now been recognized by Calix Inc. which honored BrightRidge last week…