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Bethlehem almost ready to light star

A brighter star will shine over the little town of Bethlehem this Christmas.

Leaders in the Barrow County city - which draws people who want the Biblical postmark on their Christmas cards - nearly have finished building a replacement luminary in time for a 2009 debut.

"It will be much brighter - or at least this time, it will be brighter than it had been before," said Wayne Ridgeway, an electrician and Bethlehem City Council member who's helped build a new star for the city.

Ridgeway and machinist Louie Martin, helped by a few other local handymen, have worked for more than a month to craft a 12-by-12 illuminated iron star from scratch.

The group used new angle iron, wiring, light sockets and slightly more than 50, 100-watt incandescent bulbs to return the star to its former glory, Ridgeway said.

"Everybody's been kind of concerned that we wouldn't get it back in place before the Christmas season," he said. "We can't imagine a Christmas season without the star. I'd totally be tarred and feathered for the rest of my life if I didn't get it back up."

Many in the city of 1,000 people were disappointed with the dimness of the old star, which stood above a town famous for a post office where workers hand

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