Yes, Theresa, there will be Christmas lights.

 You gotta’ give it to Vice Mayor Theresa Barron, she can hang in there with the best of 'em. Take this Christmas lights thing. Barron wants the city to buy Christmas lights instead of leasing them.

Total cost to adorn light poles on US Highway 27A and U.S. Highway 19 is about $14,000.     And that's just for part of the town. If she could get 100 light poles decorated, it would cost about $23,000. And they come with a three-year manufacturer's warranty. That's if the city had bought them in July.    

City Attorney Norm Fugate even brought the first Christmas greetings on the lights: The City of Williston, which he also advises, said it would lend its bucket truck — gratis — to put up and remove the decorations.   

The rest of the Chiefland City Commission — think of them as Grinches if you wish — went with leasing the Christmas lights for three years at $27,000 total. That's on top of the $27,000 spent in the past three years. Total for six years: $54,000.   

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