CONWAY — Businesses were left without power for nearly two hours in parts of North Conway Monday evening after a failure at a transformer substation on Eastman Road.
A power outage was reported at 5:09 p.m. near the Perkins Corner substation near the Peking Sunrise Restaurant & Lounge, with 459 New Hampshire Electric Cooperative customers affected, according to the NHEC website, and 150 Eversource customers impacted, according to a spokesman.
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