Tuolumne County Facilities Management worker Brett Wilson hunched over a pressure-washed patch of brick outside of the University of California Cooperative Extension farm advisory office in downtown Sonora on Tuesday morning.
A pentacle — a five-pointed pentagram surrounded by a circle — was spray-painted there earlier, in white onto the brick.
“We’re the ones that have to go out and handle all these jobs, from the vandals to the homeless,” said Wilson, 49. “But there’s a difference between artful graffiti and destructive graffiti.”