LYNDONVILLE, Vt. (AP) — A missing statue of the Virgin Mary stolen from a Vermont nativity scene more than two years ago has been found unharmed and returned to its owner. 
 
 The statue was stolen from Lyndonville in January 2016 and it was recently discovered in an apartment house storage area by Lyndonville Police Chief Jack Harris acting on a tip. It was returned to the Lyndon Ecumenical Council. 
 
 The Caledonian Record reports Municipal Administrator Justin Smith recognized the missing statue in photos of the building's interior taken by the town health officer during an inspection. 
 
 Police say mostly college students live in the building and it will be impossible to determine how it got there. 
 
 A statue of the baby Jesus that was stolen at the same time remains missing. 
 
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 Information from: The Caledonian-Record, http://www.caledonianrecord.com ||||| The missing head of a statue of baby Jesus outside Ste. Anne des Pins parish in Sudbury has been returned, and the controversial bright orange clay head that replaced it has been removed. ( Gino Donato / THE CANADIAN PRESS ) 
 
 After having been broken off and stolen from a statue outside Sudbury’s Paroisse Saint-Anne-des-Pins church, Baby Jesus’s head has been returned. Father Gérald Lajeunesse of the parish says though he has no idea what happened to the head in the first place, he is “relieved,” and always hoped the story would end well. The head had been missing for about a year. When Father Lajeunesse arrived at the church a few years ago, it was clear the head had been decapitated in the past and was held together with adhesive. It had been knocked off its body repeatedly as a prank, but could typically be found nearby — this time, the head was removed and stolen. The statue, cradled in Mary’s arms, remained headless for some time before a local artist was commissioned to craft a temporary replacement. 
 
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 Heather Wise, the mastermind behind the reddish-orange terracotta head, does not belong to the parish and molded the head free of charge, and planned an eventual stone replacement. Father Lajeunesse is a priest at the church and told the Star on Thursday that he was considering having the head removed, as the rain was beginning to erode the clay and stain the statue. Replacing the entire statue itself would have been an expensive endeavour, reports say. 
 
 Now that the head has been returned, church leaders will be looking into security measures to prevent further theft, Father Lajeunesse said. ( Matt Durnan )
– A missing statue of the Virgin Mary stolen from a Vermont nativity scene more than two years ago has been found unharmed and returned to its owner, the AP reports. The statue was stolen from Lyndonville in January 2016 and it was recently discovered in an apartment house storage area by Lyndonville Police Chief Jack Harris acting on a tip. It was returned to the Lyndon Ecumenical Council. The Caledonian Record reports Municipal Administrator Justin Smith recognized the missing statue in photos of the building's interior taken by the town health officer during an inspection. Police say mostly college students live in the building and it will be impossible to determine how it got there. A statue of the baby Jesus that was stolen at the same time remains missing.