LEWISTON – In past emergencies, Joanne Potvin, director of the Androscoggin Unified Emergency Management Agency, has posted road closings, shelter openings and other important emergency information on the agency’s Web site.
But last week, Potvin said, it came to her attention that the regional EMA’s Web site was down, and it remains that way as one of the year’s biggest storms strikes central Maine.
Potvin said someone called her office last week and said they couldn’t get on the Web site, “and we went to look and found out our Web site was gone.”
The site had been given to the agency for free about three years ago by Adelphia, the cable company taken over in Maine by Time Warner Cable last summer.
Potvin said someone from her office reached a Time Warner representative Friday to see if the cable company knew anything. Potvin’s agency was given another name and number to call, but didn’t reach anyone.
On Monday, Peter DeWitt, a spokesman for Time Warner, said the company was not aware the agency no longer had a Web site, but that he would contact Potvin to discuss the problem.
Later Monday, DeWitt said the reason for the disappearing Web site was still unknown. “I want to confirm that no service for that organization was removed by us.”
Today, DeWitt said, Time Warner would be “working very closely with them to establish their Web site.”
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