
The famous green clock in Times Square on Fort Myers Beach is back to looking its usual self, following a graffiti incident that prompted a call to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.
On Oct. 10, a town employee arrived at Times Square to perform maintenance work when he noticed two small graffiti marks on the bricks at the clock’s base: a pentagram with the number 6 under each point, and a smaller pentagram with “USA” written above it.
The employee called the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, whose deputies responded to the scene and filed a report.
The graffiti had been removed as of Friday afternoon.
The clock, a longtime landmark on the Fort Myers Beach waterfront, was ripped off its base by Hurricane Ian’s record-breaking storm surge. The clock’s destruction prompted hundreds of people to pay tribute to it on social media.
The Verdin Company, a Cincinnatti-based bell, clock and tower manufacturer, built both the original clock and its replacement. The new clock was unveiled on Sept. 28, the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Ian.