Weekend Storm Cuts Power to Thousands in Attleboro Area, Knocking Out Nearly Half of Norton
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Updated · The Sun Chronicle · May 31
Weekend Storm Cuts Power to Thousands in Attleboro Area, Knocking Out Nearly Half of Norton
2 articles · Updated · The Sun Chronicle · May 31
Several thousand homes and businesses lost electricity across the Attleboro area over the weekend, with the heaviest outages reported in North Attleboro and Norton.
Saturday's wind and rainstorm knocked out service along a broad stretch of Kelly Boulevard and in the Hoppin Hill Avenue area in North Attleboro.
Norton was hit especially hard, with nearly half the town losing power during the storm.
The Massachusetts outages followed broader regional disruptions: Rhode Island Energy said more than 3,000 customers initially lost power Saturday before that total fell to 417 by evening.
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