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Illegal timber cutting blows out power

Power workers are trying to restore electricity to the Cottonport Ridge area of Meigs County after a group illegally cutting timber took out an entire power line with a falling tree around 5:45 Thursday evening.

According to Meigs County dispatch, most of the area has been without power ever since, but technicians are working as fast as they can to turn the lights back on.