Glastonbury officials want town workers to remove plastic signs promoting businesses and bake sales, signs not authorized by the town government.
One sign for Tae Kwon Do and another behind it for a tag and bake sale are just a fraction of what people saw last weekend at the busy intersection of Hebron Avenue and New London Turnpike.
"I saw the signs. There was quite a few of them," said Bill Constantine of Constantine's Hardware.
Other signs promote "Tender living care," music lessons in Manchester and meal replacement shakes.
"Unless we're out there jumping up and down, – 'Come in here, come in here,' – they're not going to see us," said Judy Flynn, who opened The Fresh Monkee shake shop Monday.
It's tucked into a plaza between Hebron Avenue and Welles Street, not visible from either.
"So the sidewalk signs really kind of draw attention to the business and kind of create curiosity, and we've already had a few people come in this morning who would never have found us without them," she said. "I put them up this morning, keeping my fingers crossed that the town says, 'OK, we want to promote small business, we want to keep you going,' and the only way to do that is to bring people in."
Her signs are OK, said a town government official, if she keeps them "reasonable" by putting the signs up for a week or two to get the word out.
