May-June 2015
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IMPORTANT NOTICE! AFTER HOURS and RECONNECTION PROCEDURE CHANGE Starting in June 2015 Craighead Electric Cooperative Service Personnel will no longer accept payments in the field after 5:00 PM. If you have been disconnected, you will still be able to be reconnected by calling our office and paying your bill plus a $50.00 reconnect fee before 4:00 PM, or paying your bill plus a $75.00 after hours fee before 7:00 PM. Requests after 7:00 PM will be reconnected the next scheduled business day. Our service personnel will no longer accept payments in any form when reconnecting your account after business hours. This will protect you and our personnel from handling payments after office hours. For questions or more information please call our office. 1-800-794-5012; 870 932-8301
The Craighead Electric offices will be closed Monday, May 25, 2015, for the Memorial Day Holiday. If you need to make a payment, please use our online payment option or drop your payment off at one of our night drop boxes at any of our three locations. If you need to report an outage, please call our outage number at 1.888.771.7772.
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