Recreation Facilities Vandalized

Vandals wreaked havoc in Newtown earlier this week, focusing their attention on the high school and Dickinson and Treadwell parks.

At Newtown High School, vandals used a knife Tuesday night to cuts gaping holes in at least two tennis nets, rendering the courts all-but useless for the remainder of the summer. They also cut large holes in at least one field hockey goal net. They then broke in to an equipment storage unit, slicing blocking dummies. Garbage was also strewn across the tennis courts.

NHS Field hockey coach Kathy Davey discovered the crime scene Wednesday morning.

At Dickinson, vandals Tuesday night smashed lawn chairs at the pavilion that had been set up for Wednesday’s senior picnic. And at Treadwell, vandals tossed bottles over the fence that surrounds the park’s pool. The bottles smashed across the deck, sending shards of glass in all directions.

Newtown police are investigating the incidents.