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Article: Ligonier Township aims to halt sign vandals, thieves
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- September 10, 2008
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Ligonier Township supervisors are offering a $100 reward for
information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone who has
vandalized or stolen street and traffic-control signs within the
roughly 100-square-mile municipality.
"Somebody's got to have a whole basement full of these things.
Every one is around $51, and we've put up some of them three or four
times," Supervisor Tim Komar said at a supervisors meeting Tuesday.
He estimated as many as two dozen signs go missing each year.
Aside from the obvious nuisance that defacing or removing such
signs creates and taxpayers' dollars used to replace stolen signage,
there are potentially greater consequences, said Supervisor Keith
Whipkey.
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