Power outages still reported in Portage County Monday

FirstEnergy Corp. reports that more than 1,500 of its Portage County customers were without power as of about 4:55 p.m. Monday, including more than 700 in Kent.

Outages also include about 190 each in Nelson and Franklin townships and smaller numbers scattered around numerous other communities.

Estimated restoration time is currently between late afternoon to late evening Tuesday for most of the outages, but this is subject to possible change. Go to https://outages.firstenergycorp.com/oh.html for updated information about power outages.

FirstEnergy says the causes of the outages include inclement weather and equipment and tree damage in at least some cases.

This article originally appeared on Record-Courier: Power outages still reported in Portage County Monday