Winter village displayed all year

For many, Christmas decorations have been put away for a couple of months already, but for one Green River woman some remain up year round.

“I don’t take it down,” Barbara Lee said. “It’s just too much work.”

Lee gestured to her winter village, which has grown to take up at least a fourth of her basement.

“Some of it is Christmasy, but I think most of it is a winter village,” she said.

This winter village has grown quite a bit over the years, but with any hobby it all started out small.

“I started out with making a little village out of plastic and yarn,” Lee said.

That...