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Grove's Cinema 4 is currently expanding to a six screen facility which is scheduled to be completed the first week of October. Cost of the expansion is more than $500,000 and will include two 144-seat auditoriums, stadium seating and digital sound. In mid-August the cinema will celebrate five years of business...The Oklahoma Corporation Commission has lifted price controls on SBC's retail telecommunications services and has ordered SBC to expand its highspeed digital subscriber line internet service to 68 cities and towns in the state...Cingular Wireless will build 68 new cell towers in Oklahoma City and Tulsa to provide better service (no mention of Grove)...Dr. Zach Bechtol spoke to the Grove Rotary Club Wednesday on heart attacks and strokes and what to do in case of one...Word on the street is that Grove will get a major chain restaurant late this year that will have citizens' taste buds all excited...Apparently Allegiance Cable Company's purchase of Charter Cable in Grove never went through, as subscribers are still getting bills from Charter. The transaction was approved by the City Council in January and was to happen last May.

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