The digital divide in Buffalo is about to get a little smaller.
Free internet access will be made available to the homes of several thousand Buffalo Public Schools students and their families in two of the city’s neediest neighborhoods – one on the East Side, one on the West Side.
The school system will spend more than $1.3 million for HarpData, a Buffalo-based information technology company, to extend the wireless signal from eight schools into the surrounding homes of district students…