A local man is offering his own money as a reward for information leading to the arrest of the person who vandalized a statue of Christopher Columbus in Utica.
There's a group that is lobbying people to support a campaign to remove the Columbus statue located on the Parkway and Mohawk Street. The removal will occur because protesters believe that Utica can't take care of the statue and the property that surrounds it,
The call for the removal of certain statues has reached Utica as one group has circulated a Change.org petition to take down the Christopher Columbus statue on The Parkway. Another wants it to stay up.