Plans for veterans cemetery scrapped in Alaska

Some lawmakers are upset that Gov. Sarah Palin's 2010 budget plan scraps plans for a veterans cemetery in Alaska. Here's a second report on the same subject. The state needed to commit $750,000 ($250,000 over each of the next three years) in order for the federal government to contribute the other 90 percent of the funds for the project

Update on Soldotna, Alaska, seeking site for cemetery

Residents' and voters' opposition has knocked down plans for a cemetery in Soldotna, Alaska, and so officials in the town are continuing their search to find a site to locate a cemetery. Here's another article on the same subject, as the new year and new government begins. Here is the first time we brought you this story. And here is a 2002 proposal by the town's cemetery committee.

Alaska community seeks solution to cemetery dilemma

Soldotna, a community in Alaska has been wrestling for months on whether to establish a cemetery. There have been decisions, objections, reversals, a non-binding referendum, and, now, a community task force created to decide where best to put a cemetery in town.