It wasn't immediately clear if the outages were caused by storms being forecast to sweep across the region.
As of 8:45 p.m., JCP&L said 1,200 customers were without power in Pittstown; 248 in Franklin; about 600 north of East Amwell; and hundreds of others in various towns from High Bridge out to the Pennsylvania border.
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