By Katrina Vander Kooi
After a day of record high temperatures, there was no promise of air conditioned relief for 240 Luverne residents Thursday night.
For five and a half hours that evening from around 5 to 10:30 p.m. customers in west-central Luverne did not have power.
According to Public Utilities Coordinator Red Arndt, the reason for the outage was that Mediacom was burying cable television wires and accidentally cut an electrical wire.
The problem was fixed that evening.