Members and guests gathered on July 17 at BARC Electric Cooperative’s Highland Belle office in Lexington, Va., for the co-op’s annual meeting. Board President Keith Swisher reported a rewarding and challenging year for the utility industry. BARC receives its generation...

Update - As of 9:30 p.m. this evening, our teams are finishing up the final outages, having been at it since daybreak, and will be heading home to rest. Outages later this evening may not be responded to until tomorrow...