Power Restored Following Monday Outage

QUITMAN — Power was restored Monday afternoon following an outage that affected some 300 customers of Quitman-based Wood County Electric Cooperative. A spokesperson tells KTBB the outage began Monday morning after a dumpster truck hit a power pole in the Garden Valley area and broke it in half. People in the Lindale, Emory, Quitman, and Hawkins areas were affected.