POINT ROBERTS, Wash. – A report in the Delta Optimist this week notes that Eastlink has decided to stop serving customers in the small town of Point Roberts, Washington.Point Roberts the southern tip of a peninsula, just over the border from Delta, B.C., where Eastlink owns the local cable company, formerly known as Delta Cable. The only way out of Point Roberts is back into Canada, or by boat into the Strait of Georgia.Delta Cable’s former owners, the Thomas family, long ago built cable into the U.S. town (pop. 1,300), but Eastlink has told its customers it has become too...
