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There’s a fish fry Monday in Mink, La., home to 15 households, to celebrate big news: phone service. Gov. Kathleen Blanco plans to call 83-year-old Mink resident Alma Louise Bolton from Baton Rouge to mark the occasion, which finally connects one of the nation’s last rural areas without access to regular phone service. BellSouth Corp. has spent $700,000–or about $47,000 per phone–to extend about 30 miles of cable through thick forests to Mink.
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Compiled from news services and edited by Patrick Olsen (polsen@tribune.com) and Victoria Rodriguez (vrodriguez@tribune.com)
