NATION : Statue of Lamb Still on Lam
Authorities can’t find rhyme or reason to the theft of a statue commemorating the little lamb that followed 19th-Century resident Mary Sawyer to school one day.
The heist on July 1 has vexed some residents who believe they have been robbed of a piece of history.
“I can’t understand anybody taking it,” said Karen Gaylord, a 20-year resident and part-time spokeswoman for the Sterling Police Department. “It has great historical value to the town, but it’s not something that you could sell.”
The concrete statue of the lamb had stood on the town common since the early 1960s and was a fixture of this central Massachusetts town of 6,000, said Ruth Hopfmann of the Sterling Historical Society.
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