Alexandria residents and visitors may have noticed the city’s streets don’t seem as bright in the evenings as they used to be.

That’s no illusion: As a cost-saving measure Alexandria officials voted to shut off the holiday lights that typically twinkle year-round on the trees along King Street .

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