{"id":40833,"date":"2025-11-21T17:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/40833\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:38:06","slug":"northwest-middle-school-closed-friday-due-to-power-outage-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/40833\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwest Middle School closed Friday due to power outage | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211;\u00a0Downed utility lines turned into an early dismissal for students at one local school today.<\/p>\n<p>Northwest Middle School in Reading was closed today due to power issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A message on the school district&#8217;s website states that downed power lines in the area have affected the school&#8217;s electricity, and as a result, the school will be closed today Friday, November 21. The school will reopen on Tuesday, December 2 as students are off next week for Thanksgiving break.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Northwest Middle School closed Friday due to power outage\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6920997901a8f.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Tim Lind | WFMZ-TV <\/p>\n<p>District officials say Northwest Middle is the only school affected by the outage.<\/p>\n<p>Utility crews arrived on scene around 8 a.m. to assess the damage. There is no word at this time when power will be fully restored.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Met-Ed reported a few hundred customers in the area without power. Officials have not yet made public what caused the poles to be toppled.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Northwest Middle School closed Friday due to power outage\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6920931aee75c.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Reading School District <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211;\u00a0Downed utility lines turned into an early dismissal for students at one local school today. Northwest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7753,24625,28,736,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-40833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-electricity","9":"tag-northwest-middle-school","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-reading","12":"tag-reading-city","13":"tag-reading-city-headlines","14":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}