Downtown Street Light Project Nearing Completion

The downtown area has undergone some remodeling in the past year with the street lights being changed to LED.

The reason for the change was one of necessity, according to Bill Hinton, Superintendent of the Electric Department.

“The old ones that were out there were all worn out and broken at the bases. There were two heads to a fixture which weren’t doing much good. These LED lights are much more crisp,” Hinton said.

The project of converting the downtown lights to LED has been two years in the making with the process of changing out the lights being conducted in the past few months. According...