Vandals

Dear Editor, Let’s get real about vandalized campaign signs. We took a “ride about” earlier this week to get a feel of the community toward preference of candidates in the coming elections. There were signs knocked down sporting the names of Terry Crowley and Jamie Gay. Pat Bodner (10/13/19) directed her letter toward citizens preferring some of the incumbents, as perpetrators of the heinous deeds. She insinuates that the opponents of (these are her words, “Bernie Hunstad, Hugh Coomer, in a past election, and Norma Gail Louis” ... )

Dear Editor, There have been a lot of campaign signs missing, and guess whose they are — Bernie Hunstad’s. The same thing that’s happening to him happened to Hugh Coomer when he ran for mayor. His signs are disappearing. Wonder why? Norma Gail Lewis’ are, too. I don’t like to look at the other party’s signs, but I don’t bother them. This is a free country, and we are supposed to be able to express ourselves, and put a sign in our yard without someone taking it. This vandalism needs to stop.

Dear Editor, Candidate campaign signs, both yard signs and banners, are being destroyed or removed from yards and other places. This is America, where by the grace of God we are allowed freedom of speech and expression. Campaign signs qualify as both. When you destroy a campaign sign you are destroying that individual’s personal property and their constitutional rights. We should thank God that we have nonviolent elections; that our citizens can go to the polls without fear of a bomb going off or being shot down by terrorists.

  100 years ago — 1910   Guarded by two militiamen and a deputy sheriff and with his feet bound in shackles, Shay Pellman was taken by train to Lexington from Stanford Saturday afternoon for safekeeping. He was given a death sentence Saturday morning by a Lincoln County jury on a charge of assaulting a little girl. When they stepped off the train in Lexington, Pellman immediately attracted a crowd which grew larger as he neared the city and by the time they reached the county jail, the crowd numbered fully 500 people.

LANCASTER ? At least 11 mailboxes were vandalized along Old Danville Road early Tuesday morning. Garrard County Deputy Sheriff Tim Davis said the vandalism occurred in the night, probably after midnight. A vehicle or four-wheeler appears to have been used to break some mailboxes off along the post and to pull others completely out of the ground, Davis said. Other mailboxes were removed from their posts. The mailboxes and posts were then thrown over fences or into a creek.

STANFORD ? Police have arrested three individuals who allegedly destroyed more than 30 mailboxes along five streets Thursday in the Cash Creek neighborhood. Witnesses told police they saw David Lee Miniard, 19, of Stanford and two juveniles destroying mailboxes in the early morning hours. At one point, the three hid from traffic in some bushes and then continued vandalizing the mailboxes, police said. Damage was estimated at $2,900. They gave no explanation for their behavior.

For more than 12 years Christine McCauley has made her way to the Ebenezer Church Cemetery every Memorial Day week to decorate graves of the nearly 150 plots. But Tuesday's trip to the cemetery, located on Ebenezer Church Road in southwestern Jessamine County, was a little disheartening for her when she learned vandals had toppled between 12 and 15 tombstones last weekend. "I vaguely heard something on the news about another cemetery being bothered, but I didn't catch the name," she said, while planting flowers at her in-laws' (Hoard and Mary McCauley)

HARRODSBURG - Police are still investigating a vandalism spree that damaged the inside of the old Mercer County High School building over the weekend. Police say that two unidentified white males broke into the vacant building between 10 and 11 p.m. March 13 and caused considerable damage. Mercer County Schools public relations director Becky Holt said that the perpetrators broke glass out of the old school office and the backboard of one of the basketball goals, as well as damaging some art supplies.

The Nicholasville Police Department is asking the public's help in finding the person(s) responsible for vandalizing about 13 vehicles in the Rolling Acres Drive area. The incident occurred late Saturday or early Sunday morning, Officer Scott Harvey said. Many of the vehicles had punctured tires and other damage. Additionally, a 1999 pickup was stolen from the area during the same time, and police feel the incidents may be connected. "It's possible," Harvey said. "Same night, same area.