Oh for the love of God! Even Lars Olsen had a phone in the Mercantile for the townsfolk to use on "Little House on the Prairie" (it was toward the end of the show and you had to be paying attention to catch it.)

http://www.stehekin.com/

Check the contact data at the end, I think local businesses either have double standards or a runner stationed by the one pay phone.

Just outlaw ringers being turned on. If somebody needs to contact you, they can use email like most people.

My phone ringers have been off for almost a decade, completely defeating telemarketers, as well as friends calling with bad news.

Phones are for calling out, like to dialup ISP's.

"Phones? We ain't got no phones. We don't need no phones. I don't have to show you any Stehekin phones!"

Wait, they outlaw phones but they have the internet? How weird is that...

The whole this is just nuts. What an odd little town that must be.
As for the ringers, how does anybody dial out if nobody has their ringers on?

As a Stehekin resident and one of the descendants of the early settlers, i can tell you all that one may not possibly comprehend the impact phone service would have upon our community unless you have been here to experience it yourself. We are not like most towns with stores, streetlights, or even connection to the rest of the world by road. We are isolated at the end of a 55 mile long lake and in the middle of the wilderness where access is only by boat, plane, or a lengthy hike. Our only industry is tourism and people come from all over the world to to visit this beautiful place as a destiny as it is simply not a place you can pass through on your way somewhere else unless you are hiking the PCT (Pacific Crest Trail) It is a historic and nationally unique place as there are simply few if any other towns in America where one can go and truly get away from it all and return to such an independany and self-reliant way of life. People who came to live here made a CHOICE to come live this way of life and if they should now desire phone service they should choose to live elsewhere again instead of destroying our way of life. As a point of interest, approximately 95% of the residents are opposed to the invasion of phones while the few that are in favor are shareholders in the company bringing the service in. Additionally, the service will cost approximately $3,000,000, much of which will be tax-payers money in the form of subsidies and it will go straight into the pockets of Weavtel even if only one customer signs up for the phone! Now where's the madness?!