Power Out Briefly in Several Towns in Greater Gardner MA – Cause a Mystery
For some it was 5 minutes, others a few seconds, but the power went out in the Greater Gardner area including the City of Gardner, Templeton, and Westminster just after 8pm on April 29, 2025.
As of this story, power was still out in the Phillipston – Royalston area to a few hundred customers. Gardner Dispatch told us power had gone out briefly in most of Gardner, but no cause was known.
Gardner Magazine will provide more details when we have answers to the mystery.
Update 4-30-25 11:45am: Templeton Municipal Light informed us that a problem with a High voltage line in Vermont was behind the issue, but there still is no explanation as to cause of that problem. Note that the line is over 100 years old and work is planned within the next year or so to replace a transmission line which goes from Vermont, through Gardner, to Leominster. You’ll see it referenced in meetings as the A1/B2 transmission line.