WORTHINGTON - Verizon's $200 million investment to bring its high-speed Internet to thinly populated parts of the hilltowns and Berkshires is starting to pay off, but locals are still looking to the state's Broadband Access Law to make high-speed connections available everywhere.

Verizon's DSL - or digital subscriber line - service became available Wednesday in the Berkshire County town of Florida, the first of the 24 .....(more)