***UPDATE: Duke Energy is reporting the majority of the outages have been restored as of 6:30 Saturday evening.***

More than 1,800 residents in Chapel Hill and Carrboro are without power Saturday evening.

Most of the outages run along Greensboro Street and continuing up Estes Drive to the west of Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard.

The outages were reported around 5:30 on Saturday evening, according to Duke Energy. The utility estimates that power will be restored at eight o’clock Saturday night.

There is no word on what caused the outage.

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