Nextel Orders American Flag Removed from Disguised Acton, Mass., Cell Tower.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: February 27, 2003 | Copyright information

By Anthony Flint, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 27--ACTON, Mass.--It's not that the town has anything against Old Glory. There are US flag stickers on glass doors at Town Hall, a US flag out front, and yet another one atop the obelisk in the center of town.

But the town planner here did have some questions about an American flag flying from a cell tower on top of Great Hill in South Acton. The tower's operator, Nextel, was asked to hide all antennas inside a slender, 175-foot pole painted gray-white to match clouds, to blend in as much as ...

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