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Some 8,500 electric customers of Orange and Rockland Utilities in the Monroe area were without power Wednesday afternoon.

Utility spokesman Michael Donovan said the outage, which occurred at 2:08 p.m., impacted customers in the Village and Town of Monroe and the Village of Kiryas Joel.

Crews were investigating and he anticipated power would be back on by 3:30 p.m.

The cause of the outage is under investigation.

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