FORKS — The nearly 150 families who were scheduled to have their cable television connections terminated at the end of October have been given a reprieve.
West End subscribers to Millennium Digital Media received notice earlier this month that the service would end Oct. 26.
Forks Mayor Nedra Reed reported Tuesday that an agreement has been reached that extends the cutoff deadline to Dec. 5.
The company is ending service to customers living between Forks and Sappho.
“While this will not be a permanent solution to the problem, and residents will have to acquire satellite service, they will at least have time to do so,”‘ Reed said.
Officials from the city of Forks, Millennium and CenturyTel worked together to extend the service, Reed said.
Millennium, which has operated a cable franchise in the West End for the last five years, cited the high cost of reconnecting its cable lines after a fiber-optic project is completed along U.S. Highway 101.
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The rest of the story appears in Wednesday’s Peninsula Daily News.
