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Power restored after outage effected businesses, courthouse in Hillsboro

Oncor says the intermittent power outage impacted around 1,800 customers. Power was restored just after 1:30 p.m.
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UPDATE:
Hill County Emergency Management said Oncor has given the all clear and says all issues have been resolved just after 1:30 p.m.

The Hill County Courthouse and Annex reopened for business as normal shortly after 1 p.m. and power slowly started getting restored to businesses and customers around 12:18 p.m.

ORIGINAL:
Oncor crews are on scene of intermittent power outages affecting businesses and the courthouse in Hillsboro.

Hill County Emergency Management says at 11:10 a.m., the Hill County Courthouse and Covington Street Annex, as well as several businesses in downtown Hillsboro were impacted by the power outages.

Oncor confirmed it was a wide area outage affecting around 1,800 people.

Oncor crews are currently investigating the cause and estimate power restoration around 12:30 p.m.