One man's trash

The City of Middletown Recycling Division is hosting its Annual Children’s Recycled Sculpture Contest and sculptures are on display in the lobby and second floor of City Hall. Votes are being taken from the public for the People’s Choice Award. Come see the sculptures and vote for your favorite!!

Anyone can vote, but please vote only once. Voting will start Tuesday, November 25 and run through Wednesday, December 3.

Winners will be announced on Friday, December 5! The public can come in any day City Hall is open and vote from 8:30 am. – 8:00 p.m.

City Hall is closed Thursday Nov. 27 & 28th. Sculptures are on display in public areas of the building.

The Recycled Sculpture Contest is held annually in celebration of America Recycles Day. This year the theme of the contest was “Green Country, Green Planet”. 31 entries were submitted.

H/T Justin LaSelva

Art destroyed on Main Street

One of the sculptures, an abstract which was mounted on display in front of Liberty Bank on Main Street, has been destroyed.

The sculpture, part of Middletown's Main Street sculpture walk, had already been vandalized when someone punched a hole in one of its cast "drapings."

This morning, the entire exhibit was upended and smashed by some "art critic."

I suppose vandalism, like graffiti, is unavoidable, but its unfortunate that a display, not fifty yards from the Police Station, could be forcibly toppled and smashed.