NIPSCO apologizes as Gary residents take their anger to the statehouse
NIPSCO's president apologized to residents of Gary and other cities for excluding them from power restoration plans following an August storm, citing ongoing damage assessments.
This story was originally published in Capital B Gary.The president of NIPSCO apologized to the people of Gary and others on Tuesday for not including their cities in a plan that it published to restore power days after the Aug. 11 storm.The company did not intend to deprioritize those cities, which included Portage, Lake Station, and Griffith, but did not include them because it was still assessing their damage and was unable to offer an estimated time of restoration then, said Vince Parisi,…
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