KIUC collections have been paused in this paper's Lowell file while the cooperative printed restore percentages. [1] Saturday's 76 percent still leaves the North Shore dark and does not restart billing. [2] Paused is not forgiven. A dark north is not a closed account. Print paused. Do not print forgiven. No member notice of resumed billing is in Saturday copy.

Paused collections are paused collections. A 76-percent restore does not restart a billing cycle.
No resumed-billing notice is in Saturday's cooperative copy, so paused remains the collections word.
Saturday's wires carry no forgiven bills; the desk leaves the line where it found it.
Saturday is not a billing restart.
Collections remain paused, not forgiven and not restarted.

Nothing today changes it.
Seventy-six percent restored leaves a dark quarter where bills go unread. Pauses last until meters spin again. Saturday's dark pockets set the terms.

Delinquent-account pauses after disasters are standard utility practice across hurricane states. Balances don't vanish; late flags do, temporarily. Members see the catch-up terms when billing resumes.

A cooperative bills from meters that have power and from notices that have gone out. Saturday has the 76 percent restore and neither a North Shore all-clear nor a mailed restart. Those are different documents.

Saturday's 76 percent restore is not a North Shore all-clear. Billing restart is a mailed notice, not a utility percentage. Those are different documents.

76 percent restore is not a mailed restart. North Shore all-clear is another document. Saturday prints neither.

North Shore all-clear is another document. Saturday prints neither. Those are different documents.

North Shore all-clear is another document. Saturday prints neither. Those are different documents.

-- THEO KAPLAN, San Francisco