Alas, the poor phone book. Once, it was the cornerstone of American connection, an indispensable resource people relied on to find pizza shops, plumbers, and the number of the cute girl in math class.

The other day a curious artifact showed up on the doorstep, an object instantly recognizable even in its somewhat emaciated form to those of a certain age, and a complete bafflement to a younger ...

Verizon got approval to stop delivering them in New Jersey. The company wants to phase them out in Philadelphia next. New Jersey regulators have given Verizon the green-light to stop publishing the ...

Q: Is there anywhere you can get a telephone directory of white page listings for Winston-Salem/Forsyth County and the surrounding area like we used to receive? I want a people listing directory! As ...

The state Utilities and Transportation Commission today announced that landline telephone providers will no longer be required to provide customers with printed “white pages” directories — those fat ...

Quote showed prof's disdain for 'snail people' To the Editor: In an AP story Nov. 13 about the end of white pages telephone books, Syracuse University Professor Robert Thompson quipped, "Anybody who ...

If you live in eastern Volusia County, you may have recently received a phone book. For some of us, it may have been a pleasant (or unwanted) surprise and a nostalgic reminder of those pre-digital ...