BLUFFTON — Bluffton schools dismissed students at 11:10 a.m. Thursday due to a power outage, but classes should be back in session Friday.
Superintendent Greg Denecker said the outage was due to problems with a utility pole located on the west side of Main Street behind the high school. Power went out at about 9 a.m., and students were released at approximately 11 a.m.
Denecker said that school would resume normally Friday morning.
The district alerted parents via an alert on the Ohio Alerts system. Buses took students home along normal routes, and preschool was cancelled, according to the alert.
American Electric Power reported that, as of 10:19 a.m., 185 customers in Allen County were without power, according to its outage map. The map does not specify where the outage is concentrated. That number dropped to zero by mid-afternoon.
Repair crews returned power to part of the school at approximately 11:10 a.m., and power was returned to the rest of the district shortly after 2 p.m., Denecker said.
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