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POWER RESTORED TO MOST AFTER MORE THAN 3000 LEFT IN THE DARK

(Whitewater Valley)--There were still some lingering power outages across the Whitewater Valley Friday morning due mostly to strong winds Thursday night that brought down some trees.  Nearly 500 customers of Duke Energy were still in the dark at 5 o’clock Friday morning in an area just west of Hagerstown.  136 customers of AES were out just to the northeast of Greenville.  Whitewater Valley REMC is indicating power is restored.  At 8 o’clock Thursday night, they indicated 2400 members were out in and around Fountain City, Greens Fork, and Winchester.  They said that Duke Energy’s transmission lines impacted their substations.