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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
Washington Town Council unanimously approved the Pemco light fixture for town street lights at last Wednesday’s meeting, but not before getting a chuckle out of member Steve Critzer’s suggestion. “I'd like to See us study these lights for a couple more years.”
The discussion started several years ago when Potomac Edison notified the town and county it would no longer provide parts for the existing incandescent street lights. The power company put up a sodium vapor fixture described as a “cobra arm” on a pole, in front of the courthouse and let the town and county know it wished to replace the town’s street lights with that model.
Opposition to the appearance of the fixture and the orange-color light it provided was nearly universal.
The town formed a lighting committee. Charles Eldred looked at the collection of street lights in town and found four that were similar and of a design quite common in small towns when electric street lighting was first introduced. Furthermore reproduc
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