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After 81 years, local Christmas tree farm still going strong

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Channel: LOCAL 12 · 2018 · News & Politics

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NEWPORT, Ky. (WKRC) – What do you do when it’s 65 degrees on Dec. 2?  For dozens of families, the answer was simple: go to Newport to get a Christmas tree. 

 Since 1937, families have been buying trees from the lot that is now called Tom Mitts Christmas Trees and Sunday is a particularly very busy day.

“It’s been ridiculously busy today,” Tom Mitts Christmas Trees owner David Dennis said. “Today, we’ve got everybody that was going to come out today anyway, plus the people who would have come yesterday.”

Saturday's rain meant virtually no business. Sunday, the Wright family found the perfect tree.

“When they cut it and we saw what it looked like, it looked perfect so that's why we got it,” eight-year-old Cian Wright said.

The Wrights have been coming to the lot for the last five years. Today’s weather made it perfect for the family outing.

“We moved here in 2008, we are still getting used to the weather,” Bryan Wright said. “It’s December and cold, December and hot, we never know what you’re going to get. It keeps you on your toes, it’s nice.”

The lot is opening from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day until all the trees are gone.

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