Marysville is increasing the amount of lights in the city’s Uptown. Residents said they enjoyed the patio lights, strung on Fifth Street, one block east and west of Main Street. The lights were initially leased as part of the city’s bicentennial celebration. Because of the public response, city officials decided to keep them permanently and to hang the lights on Main Street, one block north and south of Fifth Street. Stringing the Main Street lights is more problematic because the light posts are 100 feet apart, instead of the 80 feet on Fifth Street. Above, city employees Kenny Barnes, left, and Barry Janney, work to string the lights on a post at the intersection of Fifth and main streets Tuesday afternoon.
(Journal-Tribune photo by Mac Cordell)