The recession has definitely hit

And is even affecting Christmas decorations:

Meeting of the "big ass Christmas tree committee" comes to order:

Committee member #1: We've hit hard times. I think we may have to just have a regular tree this year.

CM#2: NOOOO! We HAVE to have the big ass tree! The public would suffer otherwise.

CM#1: Ok ok... Then we'll just have to reduce down to one set of lights.

CM#2: Done.

I'm pretty sure that's how it happened. The rest of Grafton looks pretty good: