Carlsbad, New Mexico, acquisition issues

The city council and county officials are struggling with how to transfer operation of a cemetery whose operator was jailed for fraud. Eddy County originally proposed buying the cemetery, but now it appears that the city will do so. The sides are working out funding arrangements.

New Mexico cemetery in disrepair

A cemetery in Bloomfield has fallen into disrepair. The president of the cemetery association says that a part-time, temporary caretaker cannot do the job and that individual gravesites are the responsibility of the family members.