5,000 customers lose power in Rensselaer County
5,000 customers lose power in Rensselaer County News staff FacebookTwitterEmail National Grid and New York State Electric & Gas were working to restore service Thursday to nearly 5,000 residents in Rensselaer County.Times Union file photo Thousands of utility customers in southern and central Rensselaer County were without power Thursday. At 3:30 p.m., a New York State Electric & Gas outage map showed roughly 3,500 customers without utility service in the towns of East Greenbush and Sand Lake and other nearby communities. National Grid showed nearly 1,000 of its customers without service in t...