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A doctor’s office and a fire station are among the buildings along the busiest streets of Sydney Mines, NS, which have been tagged with significant graffiti in recent months.

“It’s crazy to see,” said district councilor Gordon MacDonald, who noted that new dugouts at the community’s largest baseball field along with the old post office building on Main Street had also been vandalized.

MacDonald was outraged to see an old caboose on display outside Sydney’s Mining Heritage Museum tagged with graffiti.

Summer students had recently given the generations old caboose a fresh coat of paint.

“Imagine how the students felt when they came in the next day and saw that they had spent all day on Friday doing the work and trying to prepare it… and then they see what they done, vandalized like that,” MacDonald said .

In the neighboring community of North Sydney, a long-abandoned old post office is a major target. It is located next to the community cenotaph and is also across the street from the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 19.

Sometimes fires have been lit inside the empty building too. Members of the Legion have tried to tear down the structure or deal with it but so far, no luck.

“To get the cenotaph looking as nice as it is, and then to get that place looking the way it does,” said Henry “Harry” Taylor, second vice president of Branch 19. “Especially when it comes to Day the Remembrance and all the flags are up, and people are walking through the town, they have to look at that across the street. It’s not nice.”

MacDonald said Cape Breton Regional Police have been notified and are checking surveillance cameras near tagged locations.

He noted that catching offenders for something like this is not always easy.

“They have to report it,” MacDonald said of people who see or see harmful graffiti. “We would be more than happy to sit down and discuss a graffiti wall, but in the meantime we can’t get our businesses to look the other way. they look because of this.”

MacDonald also asked anyone who might recognize the graffiti tags to come forward, adding that there isn’t much time – or money – to clean it all up with the summer tourism season just around the corner.


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