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Power restored in Bourbon after outage affected entire town

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BOURBON, Ind. (WNDU) — Power has been restored after the entire town of Bourbon was left in the dark earlier today.

According to police, the outage happened after a truck hit a powerline.

During the outage, town officials directed any residents in need of a warming center to the town council chambers.

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