Students at three elementary schools were sent home early Monday morning due to power outages at those schools.
With just 15 minutes notice, at 10:15 a.m. Monday, Alamance-Burlington school system officials announced that students at the three elementary schools – Pleasant Grove, Smith, and Sylvan – would be dismissed early, at 10:30 a.m.
ABSS elementary schools typically operate from 7:50 a.m. until 2:35 p.m. on school days, under the academic calendar for the current 2021-22 school year.
Early dismissals had not been announced for other ABSS schools by lunchtime Wednesday.
Nearly 1,000 power outages had been reported in Alamance County as of 12:00 noon on Monday, according to Duke Energy’s online power outage map. For updates and more information, visit: https://outagemap.duke-energy.com/#/current-outages/ncsc
