In today's Mink, Louisiana news roundup:

Mink, La. - There's a fish fry today in this hamlet of 15 households to celebrate big news: phone service...

BellSouth Corp. has spent $700,000 - or about $47,000 per phone - to extend about 30 miles of cable through thick forests to Mink, about 100 miles south of Shreveport. All phone customers in the state will cover the cost through a small monthly charge on their bills...

Assuming every other Louisianans has a phone, that works out to just 28 cents per phone. Call it the Mink-can't-use-radio-phones tax.

In other Mink, LA news: there was no other Mink, LA news.

Previous coverage of Mink, LA starts here, although now you know the punchline.