Arrest made in felling of Connecticut’s ‘door tree’
HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut authorities say the person responsible for cutting down a distinctive tree has been arrested.
The New Haven-based Regional Water Authority announced the arrest Tuesday. No name was released.
The authority said the Door Tree in Hamden, a 200-year-old white oak that grew in a “distinctive doorway-like arch,” had been cut down with a chainsaw on July 18.
The Regional Water Authority owns the land where the tree stood.
David Johnson, Hamden’s
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