Ansonia removing graffiti from buildings, utility poles, walls in city

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ANSONIA - More than 50 graffiti tags throughout the city are being erased this week.

The unsightly tags to be professionally removed (not painted over) include public and private buildings, churches, utility poles, and walls on Main Street, North Main Street, East Main Street, North State Street, Holbrook Street, Tremont Street, Liberty Street, and Fourth Street.

Including last fall’s graffiti removal assault, more than 300 tags have been permanently removed by Trans-Clean of Stratford. The organic-based cleaning formula provides complete paint removal from brick, rock, metal, and wood poles.

This round of cleaning marks the third major campaign against graffiti launched by Mayor David Cassetti since first taking office.
In 2014, nearly a mile of heavy graffiti was removed from the flood control wall and has remained clean since.
The removal ended nearly 35 years of graffiti that scarred the wall since 1980.

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