After weeks of careful deliberation the Plattekill Town Board recently adopted a new town seal and last week ordered $300 worth of reproductions that will be placed on the town’s official vehicles. Don Dubois of Sign Designs created the artwork for the seal.

Dubois said the town provided him with a design that is similar to the finished product, the genesis coming from a child of a town employee.

“All I did was clean up around the edges and redid what they did,” he said.

Dubois said he chose an eagle design that is closer to one used at the country’s founding rather than one similar to the present Seal of the United States.

“Knowing that the town was founded in 1800, I went to an eagle similar to what was used in the 1776 decoration,” he said.

He said the town had discussed different seals in the past “but nothing ever grabbed hold.” He gives the present Town Board credit for not letting the idea slip away entirely but worked to make “something a little more permanent and established.”

Dubois’ design has 29 red stars that ring the inside of a 7 inch circle against a white background. An American flag is placed near the top with Town of Plattekill in bold black lettering beneath it. An eagle sits atop the word E Pluribus Unum, which is Latin for ‘Out of Many, One,’ and beneath this are the words Established 1800.

Dubois does all of the design work and uses another company to do the actual printing of the decals that will go onto the vehicles.

“What I do is e-mail them the artwork that they can take it right off the computer and you don’t lose definition because of different generations,” he said. “They cut and print the decals off of my artwork.”

Dubois said he will place the adhesive backed decals onto the town vehicles by hand and gets it straight “from years and years of practice.” Dubois said the decal colors will work with the variety of town vehicles, from white and red and a few that are yellow.

By Mark Reynolds
mreynolds@tcnewspapers.com