Versant Power said approximately 7,500 customers were affected by Friday's power outage Friday afternoon. Credit: Nina Mahaleris/BDN
Over 7,000 people briefly lost power across Bangor Friday afternoon. Just before 12:45 p.m. much of Bangor went dark in an outage that is still being investigated according to Versant officials. As of 1:16 p.m. power was returned to all customers, Amanda Cummings, a spokesperson for the company said. The outage impacted about 7,587 people, the company said.

Sawyer Loftus is an investigative reporter at the Bangor Daily News, a 2024-2025 fellow with ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network, and was Maine's 2023-2024 journalist of the year. Sawyer previously...

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