A person or people tagged the fieldhouse at Ansonia’s Nolan Field with graffiti overnight.
The damage was discovered by someone walking on the track at about 5:45 a.m. He called police, who are investigating.
Public Works Director Douglas Novak is especially ticked off, because he said crews were at the property off Wakelee Avenue only yesterday sprucing it up.
Voters in 2013 approved $110,000 in work to make improvements to the fieldhouse.
“After all the hard work by the public works employees last summer to clean it up — it looked very nice — we get this happening,” Novak said.
Photos of the damage sent by Novak to the Valley Indy are posted below.
He said he’s looking into the possibility of offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible.
Doors covered with graffiti tags will have to be repainted, he said, and spraypaint on the building’s brick exterior will have to be blasted away.
Novak said he couldn’t yet estimate a dollar amount of how much the work will require.
The property is no stranger to vandalism, sadly. The home field of the high school’s football team was damaged in August 2012 by a vehicle of some kind driving on it, causing about $15,000 in damage.
Much of the cost of those repairs was raised by the Valley Community Foundation and other groups.
Ansonia Police Lt. Andrew Cota said police are investigating. Catching graffiti vandals is hard after the fact because there are often no witnesses.
