5-Hour Outage Hits 6,500 Homes Crews Repair Equipment At Goodyear Lake Dam As temperatures began to plummet late this morning, a widespread power outage occurred, turning off the heat to 6,500 homes – a quarter of the properties in Otsego County – between NYSEG’s Goodyear Lake dam and up Route 28 to a half-dozen miles beyond Cooperstown. A team of four NYSEG linemen worked at dam’s power station throughout the afternoon, restoring electricity to the Milford Center area shortly after 3…