One Fort Mitchell street lined up a battalion of blow-up Santas, now over 50 Fort Mitchell streets are locked in a playful turf war of towering Nutcrackers and supersized Grinches, as the city’s “Inflatable Wars” kick off.

Beechwood Road was the trend setter for this idea. The street’s residents all displayed blow-up Santas on their lawns last year in support of Beechwood Independent’s Santafest. That became a topic of discussion on the Fort Mitchell neighborhood page on Facebook, and it was then that Fort Mitchell resident Lynette Colosimo got an idea.

Why not have the entire city participate?

“I’m like, you know what Pleasant Ridge is going to throw down the gauntlet,” Colosimo said. “We’ll match your Santas and raise you, our inflatables. Then the other streets are going, ‘we want to

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