Holiday decorations spring up around town

November 18, 2011 at 6:00 a.m. | Updated November 18, 2011 at 6:00 a.m.

Patrick Craighead, lineman for the City of Fulton, places a bow on a garland that stretches across Court Street. City workers were out bright and early Thursday morning decorating the downtown area for Christmas.
Patrick Craighead, lineman for the City of Fulton, places a bow on a garland that stretches across Court Street. City workers were out bright and early Thursday morning decorating the downtown area for Christmas.

Linemen from the city's Electric Department were busy Thursday putting wreaths up on high and stretching garlands across light poles.

Decorating started Thursday and will take about four days to complete. The downtown area will be finished first, in time for the Holiday Open House today. Christmas lights that outline some of the downtown area businesses turned on Thursday at 5 p.m.

Lineman Patrick Craighead said the lights and decorations seem to be the annual "trigger that makes everybody get into the holiday mood."

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