NORWAY — The Opera House clock is ticking again.

Town Manager David Holt said the broken piece has been replaced but the historic E. Howard clock is no longer running on solar power.

“We put it back to electricity. It’s no longer solar-powered,” he said.

Jim Bryant of Wayne, keeper of the town’s 120-year-old timepiece  in the Opera House tower on Main Street, said earlier this month that two wires going to the clock broke around the time final work on the $1.1 million restoration of the Opera House — including installation of LED lights on the clock tower — was being completed this winter. While it is unclear what happened, a new motor drive had to be ordered from a company in Indiana.

The motor drive was installed last week.

The clock had been running on solar power since last fall after Bryant installed a 12-volt, DC solar panel on the south side of the bell tower to move the clock’s hands. The clock originally ran with a weight-driven system that failed and was replaced with a less costly electric system in the 1950s.

Holt said the change back to electric power will have no significant economic impact.

He said the main reason the town decided to change the clock to solar power was so the clock didn’t have to be reset each time the power went out.

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