Hampton suffers power outage Thursday

NPPD crews get electricity flowing by around 7 p.m.
 

NPPD crews work at the Hampton substation near the water tower to restore electricity to village on Thursday afternoon. A broken insulator at the substation was blamed for the outage.
NPPD crews work at the Hampton substation near the water tower to restore electricity to village on Thursday afternoon. A broken insulator at the substation was blamed for the outage.

A broken insulator at the electrical substation on Hampton’s northeast side by the water tower is being blamed for a power outage that impacted the entire village for about eight hours on Thursday.  Hampton Utilities Supt. Chris Friesen says the power went out at about 11 a.m. Crews from NPPD went to work repairing the problem and thought they had it fixed by late afternoon, but when they tur…