Power to 1,500 D.C. customers cut when vehicle hits utility pole
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Version 0 of 1. About 1,500 Pepco customers lost electrical service Saturday morning in Northeast Washington when a vehicle struck a utility pole. Pepco spokesman Bill Yingling said the outage, first reported about 8 a.m., affected residents in the area of Catholic University and Fort Totten. Power was restored to most customers by Saturday afternoon. D.C. police said a vehicle crashed into a pole in the 3500 block of Harewood Road NE between Michigan Avenue and Taylor Street. That area was closed to traffic for several hours, police said. — Luz Lazo Arlington Public Schools is mourning the loss of a top administrator who died Tuesday in a scuba diving accident. Kathleen Meagher was Arlington’s director of secondary education, overseeing high school education for the high-performing district of about 25,000 students. Schools officials said she died in an accident in the Caribbean nation of St. Kitts and Nevis. Meagher was hired in summer 2014 after serving as the director of elementary education for the Palo Alto Unified School District in California, according to her LinkedIn page. “Kathleen was a brilliant educator with over 28 years of experience as a classroom teacher, a program coordinator, and educational administrator in several school-based and central office positions,” Arlington School Board Chair Emma Violand-Sanchez said in a statement. While with Arlington Public Schools, Meagher was working to complete a doctorate in educational leadership from the College of William and Mary. She had a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Boston College, a master’s in educational counseling from California State University at San Bernardino and a master’s in education administration from Santa Clara University in California. Meagher’s family could not be immediately reached for comment. — Moriah Balingit |