Police say they have no suspects and no leads two weeks after athletic facilities at Scarborough High School were significantly vandalized.

The vandalism was discovered and reported at about 8:52 a.m. Monday, July 7, by a town employee, police said, just days before the town was scheduled to celebrate its 350th anniversary with a weekend-long festival that attracted thousands.

All traces of the vandalism, which police say occured over the weekend of July 5-6, had been removed by town employees by the time the celebration opened with an all-class reunion at Scarborough High School on July 11.

Police said the vandal or vandals targeted the outdoor sports facilities and made mention of the class of 2009 and the initials “JLC.”

A welcome sign to the sports complex was spray-painted over with the words “free admission” in gold spray paint, police said. On another sign, which read “This is a tobacco-free zone,” the word “free” was covered over with paint. Spray paint on a soccer goal read, “Soccer sux.” The door handle to a concessions stand was broken off and missing and the handle on the door to the operations room had been bent and rendered inoperable, police said. A sign on the east side of the track was spray-painted with the words, “Yes JLC,” and on a sign listing prohibited items, the word “prohibited” was crossed out.

There was some obscene graffiti on a trash barrel and on the side of a track building, police said.

The graffiti artist or artists made several references to the class of 2009, including JLC 46 Class of ’09” and “Get Bill.”

All the vandalism was done in metallic gold or silver paint, police said.

Police say no one has come forward with information on the crime or the identity of the vandals.

“(The investigation is) still open, but (we don’t) have anybody we’re really looking at,” said Sgt. Rick Rouse.

School Board Chairman Chris Brownsey said he had not been aware of the vandalism until alerted by a reporter.

“I hope the perpetrators are caught,” he said.

Superintendent David Doyle said he did not know how much it cost to repair the vandalism. He said that some form of painting seems to be a “right of passage” for students starting their senior year.

“We’ve tried to deflect that over the years by providing a portable space for them to put up (graffiti),” he said. The “portable space” is an 8-by-10-foot plywood structure that is set up outside the school’s main entrance for a few days at the beginning of the school year.

“Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t,” he said.

He said police and the district attorney, if they identify the vandals, should “follow the normal course of events” in prosecuting them.

Community Services Director Bruce Gullifer, whose department maintains the athletic fields, was not immediately available for comment Tuesday.

This is the second case of high school vandalism in the area. Cape Elizabeth High School students missed a day of classes on Monday, March 24, after 10 seniors broke into the school and removed ceiling tiles, moved furniture and wrote graffiti on the walls. All 10 came forward and confessed within hours, and all but one student avoided criminal charges by signing a behavior contract with District Attorney Stephanie Anderson. The tenth, football quarterback Jim Bump, pleaded guilty to three misdemeanors after he violated the contract by drinking and staying out past his curfew.

Anderson has pledged harsher punishment for similar pranks in the future – if the vandals are caught.