Phone service restored in Grove

GROVE, Okla. (AP) _ Phone service for Grove residents was restored after Southwestern Bell crews worked into the night. <br><br>Phone service outside of the northeastern Oklahoma town was out after workers

Sunday, November 17th 2002, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

GROVE, Okla. (AP) _ Phone service for Grove residents was restored after Southwestern Bell crews worked into the night.

Phone service outside of the northeastern Oklahoma town was out after workers putting in a sewer line cut the main fiber optic cable into the town.

Phone service was restored at about 12:30 a.m. Sunday, said Marty Richter, spokesman for Southwestern Bell.

``They had a hard time getting to the line. It was about 10 feet down, there was a lot of water, a lot mud and a lot of rock,'' Richter said.

Residents were able to call within the city, but could not call out.