A display in the Carson Valley Museum & Cultural Center of the old switchboard and a lineman for the United Farmers Telephone and Telegraph Co, which served Carson Valley until 1946. In those days, people would tell the operator who they were calling. Record-Courier File Photo

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Even local calls will now require area code

Starting Sunday, Northern Nevadans that will have to press 775 before the phone number for local calls

• By Kurt Hildebrand
• October 23, 2021