Uniontown stadium, cars, businesses hit by vandals
Joel Brewton/heraldstandard.com
Graffiti was discovered Saturday morning, Nov. 12, 2011 on the football field at Uniontown High School. “PSP” was found spray painted on the field, bleachers and several yard line markers. Additional graffiti was found on the press box, resulting in the defacing of the hand painted Raiders logo, painted in 2001.
Joel Brewton/HeraldStandard.com
Graffiti was discovered Saturday morning on the football field at Uniontown High School. “PSP” was found spray painted on the field, bleachers and several yard-line markers. Additional graffiti was found on the press box, resulting in the defacing of the hand-painted Raiders logo, painted in 2001.
Crews spent Saturday afternoon attempting to clean or to cover graffiti at the Uniontown High School stadium, but they weren’t the only ones in town affected by the vandalism.
Vandals armed with spray paint also hit Byers Mart, Rite Aid and Angelic Bedding on Connellsville Street, with the damage found early Saturday morning. The damage at the high school stadium also was found Saturday.
Two vehicles on Craig Street, a vehicle on Morgantown Street and a house and garage on Union Street were found with similar graffiti Friday.
All of the graffiti included the letters “PSP.” Some also included swastikas, apparently racist statements, obscene comments and crude drawings.
“I talked to the police and they said there have been a rash of these in recent weeks,” said Uniontown School District Superintendent Charles Machesky.
Machesky said the damage done at the football stadium is cosmetic.
“It was primarily just some paint on the field and on the face of the press box and on the visitors’ side,” Machesky said. “They sprayed the turf. We called the crews to clean it up.”
Maintenance workers painted over what they could and attempted to disguise the writing on the synthetic grass field. The Red Raiders mascot, an Indian in a full war bonnet that had been hand-painted on the press box in 2001, was a casualty of the vandalism spree. With graffiti covering the mascot, the maintenance crew had no option but to paint over the entire design.