The Haxtun-Fleming Herald - What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope

Haxtun residents experienced a near 20-hour power outage earlier this month and since then, questions continue to arise regarding the power failure and a solution should it ever happen again.

The Town of Haxtun is currently working on a solution should an outage event occur again and Superintendent Ron Carpenter explains how the outage occurred and how it was eventually restored.

On the morning of Dec. 6, the Town of Haxtun experienced a power outage that lasted just shy of 20 hours. The cause of the outage was failure of equipment belonging to Western Area Power Administration at the...