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Middleboro Bans Christmas Lights On Tree Dedicated To Veteran

MIDDLEBORO (CBS) – One tree in Middleboro will not be decorated with lights this holiday season.

The Board of Selectmen voted to ban lights from a spruce tree, which was donated in memory of a World War I Medal of Honor veteran.

WBZ NewsRadio 1030's Doug Cope reports

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Last year, when organizers of the town's Christmas festival decorated the tree, the man who donated it and veterans' groups thought it was disrespectful.

The vote was 3-2 against the lights.

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