Substation

A Kentucky Utilities power outage that affected more than 3,000 Winchester residents and left businesses on the Bypass without power has been fixed as of about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. "What we had is a fuse that went off on a substation on Boone Avenue," said KU spokesman Cliff Feltham. "And it affected 3,412 customers. " The area affected was the southwest side of Winchester, and it included George Rogers Clark High School and the south end of the Bypass, Feltham said. Feltham said KU workers "shifted the load to another source and were able to bring customers back on little by little and eventually got them all on somewhere between 9 and 9:30.

LANCASTER - East Kentucky Power Cooperative will hold two open houses this month to educate local residents about a proposed power line and substation in Garrard County. Several residents have voiced concern over the property the company is considering for the substation. The company has an option to buy a piece of property near the intersection of Ky. 52 and Boone's Creek Road but says it is still reviewing alternate corridors. The power line will run from the existing Lancaster substation on Buckeye Road to just west of the city.

LANCASTER - Bob and Ann Crawford recently retired and moved to Lancaster where they found a historic house surrounded by rolling farmland. But now, they're second-guessing their purchase because of a new power line and substation proposed for their area. The high-voltage transmission line will run from Clark County through Madison and Garrard counties to Lancaster. "But nothing in anything East Kentucky Power Cooperative has published, that I've found, and distributed to the public has said the exact location they're looking at, nor the size of the monstrosity they're proposing to build with those lines," Bob Crawford said.

LANCASTER - Nearly 700 Inter-County Energy customers were left without power early this morning after an unknown person stripped about 40 copper ground wires from a Garrard County substation. Late Thursday evening, someone cut through a fence surrounding the substation on Ky. 52 just outside of Lancaster, said Sheree H. Gilliam, vice president of member services for Inter-County Energy. The person then stripped approximately 40 copper wires, which caused a loss of power at the substation.

Nearly 1,800 Kentucky Utilities customers in east Danville were without power for more than two hours this morning after lightning struck a substation during a rainstorm, a KU spokesman said. “Our substations have lightning arresters which are supposed to protect the substations from lightning strikes,” Cliff Feltham said. “In this case, the lightning arrester at the substation that serves east Danville didn’t work, so we’re blaming the outage on equipment failure.

By REBECCA NEAL Staff Writer Computer screens went black and local businesses were in the dark this morning as nearly 2200 people in Danville were without power. "We know it's South Main down through the end of town," said James Turner, director of communications for the Danville Police. Traffic lights were out on Hustonville Road and other roads across town, and police were out directing traffic. Workmen were at the Kentucky Utilities substation trying to figure out what happened, said Cliff Feltham, a public relations specialist with KU in Lexington.

Inter-County Energy will have a planned outage in Boyle and Lincoln Counties on Wednesday, November 2. This outage is necessary to facilitate upgrades to the Shelby City substation located on Highway 300. These upgrades are to accommodate future growth. Inter-County Energy will interrupt service to members for approximately three (3) hours from 10:00 am. ? 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 2nd. Areas in Boyle and Lincoln Counties affected by the outage include: Airport Road Albany Circle Pleasant Drive Scotts Drive Linda Drive Spring Valley Drive Chrisman Lane Chrisman Spur Tom Hackley Road Fox-Spoonamore Lane Highway 590 (Hubble)

LIBERTY - Casey County authorities are investigating two separate copper thefts that occurred last week. Sheriff Jerry Coffman said several thousand dollars worth of copper and other items were taken Jan. 9 from the Taylor County RECC substation on Ky. 70 West and Jan. 11 from the Walnut Hill School construction site on U.S. 127 South. Intruders cut a fence at the rear of the substation to gain entrance sometime Jan. 9 and took copper that belonged to the RECC and Davis H. Elliott Contractors of Lexington.

WINCHESTER POLICE Charged - Angelia S. Abbott, 28, of 31 Grandview Drive, Apt. 225, was served with a warrant Thursday for first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance. - Donna Sullivan, 31, of 1003 Westwood Drive, was served Thursday with a warrant for first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance. - Walter J. Cline, 31, of 27 E. Washington St., Apt. 21, was charged Thursday with theft by unlawful taking. - Tommy D. Barker, 23, of 224 Jackson St., Apt. 3, was charged Thursday with theft by unlawful taking.

LIBERTY - The Casey County Sheriff's Department has been busy for the past couple of weeks chasing thieves who have taken copper and tools at a school construction site and a utility substation. The officers also are investigating a break-in Sunday at Shannons Grocery. Deputy Sheriff Bob Weddle thinks that all the thefts may involve the same people. The officers got a break Tuesday when they confiscated two pickup trucks in Russell County that contained stolen copper, said Weddle.

LANCASTER - Nearly 700 Inter-County Energy customers were left without power early this morning after an unknown person stripped about 40 copper ground wires from a Garrard County substation. Late Thursday evening, someone cut through a fence surrounding the substation on Ky. 52 just outside of Lancaster, said Sheree H. Gilliam, vice president of member services for Inter-County Energy. The person then stripped approximately 40 copper wires, which caused a loss of power at the substation.

T. G. McKnight, 79, of Winchester, husband of Loretta “Jo” Henson McKnight, passed away Sunday at his home.  A native of London, Ky., he was born May 26, 1932, to the late Curtis McKnight and Martha Bowling George.  He retired as a substation foreman from East Kentucky Power.  He was a United States Army veteran and member of Central Baptist Church.  In addition to his wife, he is survived by one son, Mark Alan McKnight...

A Kentucky Utilities power outage that affected more than 3,000 Winchester residents and left businesses on the Bypass without power has been fixed as of about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. "What we had is a fuse that went off on a substation on Boone Avenue," said KU spokesman Cliff Feltham. "And it affected 3,412 customers. " The area affected was the southwest side of Winchester, and it included George Rogers Clark High School and the south end of the Bypass, Feltham said. Feltham said KU workers "shifted the load to another source and were able to bring customers back on little by little and eventually got them all on somewhere between 9 and 9:30.

Nearly 1,800 Kentucky Utilities customers in east Danville were without power for more than two hours this morning after lightning struck a substation during a rainstorm, a KU spokesman said. “Our substations have lightning arresters which are supposed to protect the substations from lightning strikes,” Cliff Feltham said. “In this case, the lightning arrester at the substation that serves east Danville didn’t work, so we’re blaming the outage on equipment failure.

WINCHESTER POLICE Charged - Angelia S. Abbott, 28, of 31 Grandview Drive, Apt. 225, was served with a warrant Thursday for first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance. - Donna Sullivan, 31, of 1003 Westwood Drive, was served Thursday with a warrant for first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance. - Walter J. Cline, 31, of 27 E. Washington St., Apt. 21, was charged Thursday with theft by unlawful taking. - Tommy D. Barker, 23, of 224 Jackson St., Apt. 3, was charged Thursday with theft by unlawful taking.

Police say they have a lead in a streak of copper thefts from cell phone towers and Kentucky Utilities substations. Clark County Sheriff Berl Perdue Jr. said they are searching for a man who lives outside Clark County in connection with several recent thefts. "We think this is related to the thefts we've had at some microwave towers," Perdue said. The case is unrelated to last week's arrest of two men charged with dismantling air conditioning units at six rural churches in order to take the copper inside and sell it for scrap.

FRANKFORT - The Kentucky Public Service Commission will hold a hearing Aug. 2 to receive public comment on a proposal by East Kentucky Power Cooperative Inc. to construct an electric transmission line in Clark, Madison and Garrard counties. The hearing will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Room B of the Perkins Conference Center at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond. EKPC has submitted a proposal to construct 35.6 miles of 345 kilovolt transmission line from the J.K. Smith Generating Station in Clark County to the proposed West Garrard substation near Lancaster.

LANCASTER - East Kentucky Power Cooperative is preparing to file an application with the Kentucky Public Service Commission in June for its proposed power substation in Garrard County and 36-mile power line. Nick Comer, the company's communications coordinator, said a letter of notification recently went out to each property owner along the proposed route. The land for the substation, just over 74 acres, was purchased from Charles C. and Samuel L. Bourne for $410,000 and is near the intersection of Boone's Creek Road and Ky. 52 just west of Lancaster.

LIBERTY - The Casey County Sheriff's Department has been busy for the past couple of weeks chasing thieves who have taken copper and tools at a school construction site and a utility substation. The officers also are investigating a break-in Sunday at Shannons Grocery. Deputy Sheriff Bob Weddle thinks that all the thefts may involve the same people. The officers got a break Tuesday when they confiscated two pickup trucks in Russell County that contained stolen copper, said Weddle.

LIBERTY - Casey County authorities are investigating two separate copper thefts that occurred last week. Sheriff Jerry Coffman said several thousand dollars worth of copper and other items were taken Jan. 9 from the Taylor County RECC substation on Ky. 70 West and Jan. 11 from the Walnut Hill School construction site on U.S. 127 South. Intruders cut a fence at the rear of the substation to gain entrance sometime Jan. 9 and took copper that belonged to the RECC and Davis H. Elliott Contractors of Lexington.