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Photos: New communications tower going up in Le Roy

By Howard B. Owens

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A new 165-foot communications tower is being installed today on Town of Le Roy property off of Asbury Road (the site at one time of an airport).

The tower is part of the county's upgraded 800 megahertz digital communications system and will help fill in some dead spots in the town and village of Le Roy. It will also help in spots in Le Roy where communication was harder inside of buildings.

Steven Sharpe, director of emergency communications for Genesee County said the tower will also help complete the phase of building interoperable capabilities with Monroe County's emergency dispatch center, which will then also create a bridge for communications with Ontario County.

"Our goal is to improve interoperable capabilities throughout the region," said Sharpe (in the bottom photo, taking a video of the shelter for communications equipment being lowered into place.

The tower is funded with a $3 million grant from the state.

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david spaulding

a million dollars here a million there...... dead spots? the dead spots have been there since the beginning of time.... how in the hell did we make it this far with dead spots? .... this is just another big brother project and a waste of my tax dollars....... remember the tower in Batavia? lol when it was finished they need more tax money because it didn't work due to dead spots .... a ha ha ha a ha ha we are nothing more than sheeple..... go trump go

Dec 7, 2016, 6:16pm Permalink

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