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Mayor Hardwick has instructed Street Dept to remove antenna

Update: Three antennas taken down from stop signs this morning by City of Columbia Street Department are now held at City Hall. The devices had been installed at stop signs at Jamestown & Guthrie, at Greensburg & Marshall Streets, and at Marshall Street & W Frazier Avenue. The owner(s) of the devices is/are still a mystery. Superintendent Rowe says the antennas had been up for a month.
Next earlier story, with photos: Anyone know answer to mystery antenna, foot of Jamestown Hill

By Ed Waggener

Columbia Mayor Curtis Hardwick has directed Donnie Rowe, superintendent of the City Street Department, to remove the antenna atop the stop sign facing Guthrie Street at Jamestown Street.



Mayor Hardwick had checked with the City Attorney, and was told he has the authority to order the removal. However, he said, he waited for someone to come forward, acknowledge the ownership of the antenna, explain its purpose, and seek permission for its installation.

"We're thinking and hoping that the antenna installation is an innocent act," he said, "but in this day and time, you just don't know."

Hardwick said he had asked a representative of the Kentucky Highway Department if they had installed the antenna, and had been assured they had not. The antenna is scheduled to be removed sometime today, he said.

Three devices were actually found as removal began -- one antenna had been installed at the stop sign at the corner of Jamestown & Guthrie Streets, one at the corner of Greensburg & Marshall Streets, and a third at the corner of Marshall Street & W Frazier Avenue.


This story was posted on 2016-08-03 08:36:34
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Street superintendent with one of antennas in city custody



2016-08-03 - City Hall, 116 Campbellsville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com (c).
Columbia Street Department Superintendent Donnie Rowe looked on as one of the three mystery antennas removed from City Stop Signs this morning were stored at City Hall. Officials could not find any identification for ownership of the antennas, only a generic label required by the Federal Communications Commission. Mayor Hardwick said that he's under the belief that there was no bad intentions on the part of whoever erected the antennas, but added, "In this day and time you can't be too careful." - EW

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