County wraps up phone episode

Lance Bishop, county information technology, gave a final county telephone update to county commissioners at their Monday workshop.

Bishop said while the main phone issue is fixed, there are still small issues that are popping up.

The county phone lines and numbers had been restored to regular service as of Thursday, Nov. 14, to conclude a month without service.

The county office lines went down Oct. 15 when Century Link was asked to disconnect many unused county telephone lines and somehow blew out the whole system.

“There are little hiccups,” Bishop said. “We had issues last week where the c...