diff --git a/share/xml/news.xml b/share/xml/news.xml
index c8849d229a..3af81627c9 100644
--- a/share/xml/news.xml
+++ b/share/xml/news.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,22 @@
     <month>
       <name>6</name>
 
+      <day>
+	<name>8</name>
+
+	<event>
+	  <title>Service outage</title>
+
+	  <p>Portions of the &os; cluster will be offline Saturday, June 9th
+	    for an extended maintenance window for electrical work.
+	    Services will be affected, most notably mailing list traffic
+	    and a portion of our web services.</p>
+
+	  <p>The maintenance window begins June 9th at 11:00 UTC (04:00 US-Pacific)
+	    and extends though 20:00 UTC (13:00 US-Pacific)</p>
+	</event>
+      </day>
+
       <day>
 	<name>2</name>