Thou shall not steal

Shentel advertises $80.00 per month for 1.2 Gbps internet service (Shentel.com). 

Shentel charged us $98.95. 

$18.95 may not sound like much, but it's a nearly 25% overcharge. 

Multiply that by thousands of customers.

Shentel customers: check your bill!!!

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Thank you, Northern Virginia Daily

As some of you know, Shentel recently upgraded its internet service to 1.2 Gbps. Shentel sent us letters that said that our modem and router needed to be replaced. 

NVD is the main source of news for Strasburg. Prior to the upgrade and replacement of our modem and router, NVD's Strasburg news articles would show up in local news on the internet. Much like MSN, I could access these news articles and share them with you on this blog. After Shentel's upgrade and replacement of our modem and router, I can no longer access NVD articles and share them with you.

Family issues take precedent. Because of family health issues I no longer have the time nor the inclination to subscribe to NVD.

Thank you, NVD, for your excellent reporting of Strasburg news and issues. I sincerely wish you future success.

PS our modem and router didn't need to be replaced. 

another Waste Management/Town of Strasburg fiasco

They just don't get it. If a change in plans occurs less than 24 or 48 hours before a planned event, then unless each person gets notified individually, not everybody will get the word.

WM divided the town up into five sectors. Normally, they pickup weekly trash five days a week, Monday through Friday. 

At the beginning of each year the town provides a "trash holiday schedule" that shows when trash won't be picked up on the normally scheduled day because of a holiday. Monday being Labor Day, the "trash holiday schedule" for this year shows that trash pickup will be shifted one day to Tuesday through Saturday.

Are you with me so far?

This morning I noticed that only five trash cans on our street were out for pickup. Normally, there are at least two dozen trash cans out for pickup. What happened? 

There was a change to the change. Late Thursday we learned that our trash will be picked up on the normally scheduled day. Most of the people on our street didn't get the word. Interestingly, Waste Management, that didn't pickup any trash for a week or more earlier this year (https://strasburgunderground.blogspot.com/2025/07/outrage.html,   https://strasburgunderground.blogspot.com/2025/07/typical-strasburg.html), is able to pickup 5 days of trash in four days. Go figure.

The town thinks that posting these changes on the town's website and/or Facebook is sufficient notification. They don't realize that many folks don't have Facebook and the ones who do don't log into Facebook every day. They also seem to think that everybody logs into the town's sorry website every day, every hour. IMAGINE THAT!!! They also believe that neighbors "spreading the word" is sufficient. RIDICULOUS!!! CLEARLY, none of these work. But, instead of facing the facts, Waste Management and the town continue to live in LA LA LAND and change the waste pickup schedule as if everybody gets the word. HOW STUPID IS THAT?!  

Fiasco, SNAFU, FUBAR.