By Terry Karkos,Staff Writer

WOODSTOCK – Window shades prevented Jolene Littlehale’s SAD 44 computer from being destroyed early Wednesday morning.

The Woodstock Elementary School principal came to work Wednesday morning to find that two of her office windows were smashed at the school by rock-throwing vandals.

“I’m going to hope I wasn’t targeted,” Littlehale said of a vandalism spree. The only windows broken overnight were ones in her office. Damage was estimated at $5,000.

“We’ve had a lot of vandalism off and on over the years, but this was the first we’ve had since last fall,” Littlehale said.

District custodians Frank Buiniskas and Jim Whitman cleaned up the mess and fitted a large sheet of plywood into the adjoining window frames.

A crew from Portland Glass was called to replace the old, custom-made double-pane windows that cost an estimated $1,000.

Other damage along Route 232 and Rumford Avenue, where the school is located, included highway signs and a newly lettered septic tank truck that were spray-painted either with initials “TD” or words “Team Dirty.”

Route 232 itself was also spray-painted with the words, one word on either side of the double-yellow line divider.

Pumpkins, lawn ornaments, newspaper delivery posts, mailboxes and flowers were destroyed.

Twelve of 16 double-pane windows in double doors of a newly built large commercial garage next to the school were also broken. One fist-sized rock lay on the paved driveway.

A Merryfield Hill excavator was also spray-painted at a Woodstock construction site, and windows were broken on that excavator, a second excavator and a bulldozer, said investigating state police Trooper Daniel Hanson.