Pawtucket’s Henry J. Winters Elementary School to reopen Friday after power outage

PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WLNE) — Students at the new Henry J. Winters Elementary School in Pawtucket will return to the classroom Friday.

“We look forward to having students and staff back in our new beautiful Elementary School,” Superintendent Dr. Cheryl McWilliams said in an email Thursday. “We thank the parents and families for your patience and understanding during the challenges of the past week.”

Earlier this week, the district said the school had to closed for two days because an “outside machine operator hit a buried grounding wire causing a power outage.”

Late last month, Mayor Donald Grebien announced that the school was not ready to open after a fire alarm backup battery “malfunction.”