Cable Cut Silences Mentone Phones

About 500 Mentone residents lost telephone service for about 12 hours yesterday. A spokeswoman for Verizon tells Q101 that a town crew was working on a water and sewer line in Mentone yesterday morning and cut a large phone cable. Verizon says no one notified the company of the cable cut until 3:30 yesterday afternoon, and that’s when it sent a crew to repair the cable. The phone company expected service to be back on by midnight last night.