Sawyer power outage planned for Wednesday

UPPCO wants residents of the K.I. Sawyer area to know that they might be without power for two hours Wednesday night.

The K.I. Sawyer electric substation will be shut down from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

UPPCO needs to shut down the substation to perform maintenance work on it. About 1,500 customers should be affected.

The company is asking anyone who wants more information to call them at (906) 485-2403.