RIPON - The Nutt family in Ripon is known for going all out with their Christmas decorations – a tradition that started years ago at the home of now Mayor Red Nutt at his residence on Idaho Street and followed up by his adult son John with nearly 12,000 lights underscored by music on an FM station.John remembers helping his dad set up lights on the family home when he was only 12 and looked at it as something of a thankless chore. Not only did they string countless lights across their house and yard but also on giant trees that marked the corner of their property. It lit up the neighborhood like “downtown Reno,” they quipped.It was a time when the senior Nutt was a police sergeant and later became Ripon’s chief of police.