Council members grill Entergy officials on street lights

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – Jackson city leaders are raising concerns about what they say is a large number of streetlights out across the capital city.

On Tuesday, members of the City Council’s Finance Committee meeting heard from officials with Entergy Mississippi to discuss the issue.

DeLana Jones, Entergy’s manager of Region Customer Service for Jackson, said fewer than 1% of the city’s 22,254 lights are out, with about 63 outages as of Tuesday afternoon…

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