BAINBRIDGE – Thanks to an early morning electrical glitch, middle and high school students in the Bainbridge-Guilford Central School district had the day off on Wednesday. Students were back in class on Thursday, with no further interuptions of service expected, according to the school’s top administrator.

“Everything has been up and running today,” said Superintendent Karl Brown in a phone interview yesterday.

According to Brown, the outage occurred at the middle/high school campus around 2 a.m. on Wednesday. At the time it was discovered, the cause was unknown.

While the district originally decided to simply delay opening by an hour, the cause of the power outage had yet to be determined before a decision needed to be made about whether or not to close school.

Both NYSEG and an independent electrical contractor, Nelcorp, were called in to investiage the problem, Brown said, which they were able to identify as related to a sensitivity switch setting which caused the main line breaker to trip when a freezer’s compresser unit malfunctioned in the school’s cafeteria.