It's beginning to look a lot more like Christmas in downtown Reading.
A Christmas tree that was meant to replace the "Charlie Brown" tree on Penn Square was put in place Tuesday morning at the base of the Penn Street Bridge.
Reading City Council President Francis Acosta led an effort to replace the city's official tree, which many have described as being "pathetic" and "ugly," and bought the new tree from a farm in Cumru Township.
Officials on Monday, however, had a change of heart and decided to keep the original tree in place at Fifth and Penn streets and place the new tree at Second and Penn.
The controversy over the original tree drew international media attention, leading to the phones in City Hall "ringing off the hook" with calls from people across the country, officials said Monday.
Half of the callers, they said, supported the tree's removal, while the other half supported the tree being kept on Penn Square, citing the adage, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
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