Newly planted trees at South Common vandalized

Newly planted trees at South Common vandalized

Wood carcasses litter the hill in South Common Park that flanks the STEM Academy at the Rogers School, after several newly planted trees had their boughs stripped and trunks snapped during a vandalism spree sometime during the last week in April. What used to be trees with names like sargent cherry, swamp magnolia, Japanese snowbell, Eastern redbud, Japanese zelkova, kwanzan cherry and Kentucky coffee are now barely or unrecognizable husks. A lo…