Community Corner
The End of an Era for Main Street's Tree Lights
Lights, put up about eight years ago, have begun hurting the trees and will not be replaced.
The village will be taking down the lights that adorn the trees along Main Street because they've begun hurting the trees, Village Trustee Damon McMullen said at last Tuesday's Village Board meeting.
Past Northport Chamber of Commerce President Joe Pidal, Jr. spent $10,000 of his own money to put lights on the trees along Main Street about eight years ago. He also put lights on the gazebo in Village Park and helped the holiday tree lighting become an annual tradition. He died in 2007 at 58 years old.
"It was a brand new technique at the time," Deputy Mayor Henry Tobin said of the LED lights. "He basically worked with this company in China that had just come out with them. He was very proud that we had it a month before the White House."
McMullen said that the tree lights will not be replaced due to their high cost and that salvageable lights will be put on the gazebo.
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