A Franklin agency replaced a 12-year-old tourism site, won a public contract on the leanest proposal, and learned the awkward virtue of correcting a very exciting number.
For 35 years a homegrown carrier from Wilkesboro put bars on the map where the big networks saw only blank terrain. In 2026 it agreed to hand the signal to Verizon - a small-carrier story about who actually pays to cover a mountain.