"It hurts": One company says tariffs doubling price of goods, forced to cancel holiday events

Every year, Nooga Lights hosts their annual light show, drawing in thousands of people to visit a beautiful display of more than 350,000 bulbs , but tariffs have put a costly price tag on them, forcing local companies to rethink–and even cancel–holiday plans.

"It hurts,” John Haustein, Founder of Nooga Lights, says. "It hit at the worst time. We had already come under contract with a few municipalities to do shows at their locations, and then the tariffs hit."

This year, Haustein says they'd hoped to expand by bringing the first light show of its kind to Fort Oglethorpe, but plans fell through after Haustein says tariffs made the cost unreasonable and dreams impossible.

"The pricing did not change on our end. They were doing everything they could to keep that light bulb at