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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Tom Peterson / The Bulletin
February 18, 2001
A severed fiber-optic telephone line Saturday cut off much of Central and Eastern Oregon from long-distance phone service, the Internet, lottery sales and automated teller machines.
Qwest spokeswoman Mary Healy said an excavation crew accidentally cut the fiber-optic line in Boring. Healy....