“This is very progressive and visionary in my opinion,” Bentley said. “It presents a very positive, progressive image of Milledgeville.”

But he concedes that it wouldn’t have been possible without the dedicated efforts of people like Thompson, Ghessling, project consultant Karl Edwards and Beverly Blake of the Knight Foundation, who helped take all the possibilities a wireless community had to offer and networked them to present a more technologically-advanced tomorrow.

“I look forward to applying this to daily life in Milledgeville,” Bentley said. “It’s not up and running yet, but that is a technicality. I am confident that the city is as excited as I am.”