Power outage forces rare closure at Tri

Healy’s Tri-Valley School closed unexpectedly early Wednesday after a faulty electric cable fizzled underground, cutting power to the building. The outage was confined to the school.

No one could recall the school ever closing before. The long-standing policy is that Tri-Valley is always open. In fact, some teachers who got the news thought it was a prank and called the school to double check.

Golden Valley Electric Association crews worked through the day to repair the line, which runs under a parking lot into the school. GVEA listed the outage as the result of a “faulty cable,” though the exact cause is still unknown.

Skepticism ran high when the closure was first announced Wednesday morning. The school has remained open even through extreme weather and bitterly cold temperatures. At