City's LED upgrade provides music

As many patriotic residents noted, the recent Veterans Day parade through downtown St. Cloud not only introduced people to a new route with new vantage points, it also included new sounds. Thanks to the city's recently upgraded LED lighting system, patriotic music added a distinctly American audio ambiance along much of the route. The system resulted from a $7 million street light improvement project, which the city began installing in 2016. The LED lights are expected to save about $600,000 a year, meaning the cost of the project should be paid back in 12 years, city officials said when the upgrade began.