
These holiday lights are the handiwork every year of George Reichhelm on Harbor Road, across from Longshore. (Photo/Mark LaClair)
These holiday lights are the handiwork every year of George Reichhelm on Harbor Road, across from Longshore. (Photo/Mark LaClair)
Andrew Colabella is a busy man.
He works. He’s an RTM member. He moonlights as Santa Claus.
But he had time last week to cruise around Westport. He spotted plenty of homes with holiday lights. He stopped at each, and snapped photos.
Here is Andrew’s tour of our town. Now all we need is snow…
(All photos/Andrew Colabella)
Apologies to any we missed. If you’ve got a favorite holiday lights photo, please email 06880blog@gmail.com. If we get enough, we’ll run Round 2.)
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Tonight — without fanfare — the new downtown street lights were turned on.
Just as importantly, the old cobra-style highway lights were shut off.
The new lamps — lower, warmer, nicer — are far kinder to Main Street. They also complement the lighting displays in many nearby stores.
Soon, the holiday decorations will be up. They will be far lovelier than last year’s sad zip-line effort.
Now all that’s left is for Eversource to remove the old lights. Let’s hope they move more quickly than the contractors on the Merritt Parkway North Avenue bridge.
Posted in Downtown, Local business, Restaurants
Tagged Christmas lights, Main Street, Oscar's Delicatessen, Tavern on Main