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The “Little Man” is Missing!

A sorry theft near Kerrytown

by Eve Silberman

posted 11/17/2011

Residents and passersby on North Fourth Avenue are dismayed that a friendly landmark has vanished. On the night of Saturday, November 12, the life-sized figure of a smiling crossing guard was stolen from the backyard of his owner’s home on Fourth and Beakes. The painted, sheet metal figure had been giving his frozen wave to pedestrians for at least fifteen

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