Pentacle may join Nativity scene

Associated Press - November 28, 2007 3:15 AM ET

OLEAN, N.Y. (AP) - The Nativity scene outside a municipal building near Buffalo could soon be sharing space with a Wiccan pentacle.

Olean Mayor David Carucci has given a local resident permission to set up a pentacle next to the Nativity scene outside the Olean Municipal Building.

Carucci authorized the manger scene for a private group without notifying the Common Council. He's refused to remove or relocate it until the lawmakers change a 12-year-old law banning private displays in city parks.

At a meeting last night, Carucci said he wouldn't move the display to local Lincoln Park, where other holiday decorations are already installed.