Bernadette Blum, a longtime teacher at River Park Nursery School, passed away in 2016. Community members raised money to erect the now-stolen statue in her honor.

The statue was sculpted to honor teacher Bernadette Bloom who loved to take her students to the FDR Memorial with its own statue of Fala.

A $1,000 reward is available for information leading to an arrest after "The Scottie" was stolen from the Virginia Ave Dog ...