BATH

Beautifully-restored Waterfront Park has a blemish, thanks to vandals.

Sometime on Sunday, one or more people decided it would be a good idea to damage one of the new granite benches at the park, which cost about $1,500 apiece. Lt. Stanley Cielinski reported on Monday that someone found a way to snap the back rest off one of the benches. For good measure, Cielinski said, the person or persons then threw the back rest — also made of granite — onto the shoreline, snapping it to pieces.

Cielinski said he suspects juveniles.

The incident was reported at 9:55 p.m.

Not the right look

One man, apparently, didn’t have the right look early Saturday morning, on Washington Street. He paid for it with a punch in the nose.

At 12:53 a.m., police arrested Randall R. Rytky, 21, of Bath on charges of assault and violation of conditions of release.

“A man said he was attacked on Washington Street,” Cielinski recounted. “When police found a man that fit his description, two men went running off with a 12-pack of beer. The victim said the man didn’t like his suit.”

The victim was bleeding from the nose when police interviewed him, Cielinski said.

Could have been worse

A man in a wheelchair declined hospitalization Sunday after he was hit by a vehicle.

Cielinski said the vehicle struck the man’s leg and dragged the wheelchair along Washington Street, near the Bath Iron Works main gate.

“The man in the vehicle was looking left, waiting to make a turn, and the wheelchair was coming from the right, on the sidewalk,” Cielinski explained. “He pulled out and pushed the wheelchair about four feet. It could have been much worse.”

No charges were filed.

lgrard@timesrecord.com

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