Florida town begins cemetery takeover process

Despite misgivings over finances from one town official, the Davenport commission introduced an ordinance to take over the Evergreen Cemetery. The city was asked to assume control of the cemetery because members of the cemetery association are aging and no longer up to the task of maintenance and operations.

Virginia town buying adjacent land to expand cemetery

Officials posed a hypothetical dilemma to neighbors: Would you rather have a cemetery next door or a housing development? Already, Riverside Cemetery is limted to Courtland residents, but buying another 8 acres would alleviate space concerns for now.

No word on cell-phone tower in New Jersey cemetery

There have been a couple of hearings on this matter, but I've yet to find out whether a final decision has been reached on erecting a cell-phone tower in a cemetery in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.

Emergency tower OK'd in Laramie, Wyoming, cemetery

Officials in Laramie, Wyoming, approved erection of a tower for emergency communications in a local cemetery

StoneMor earnings up

The Levittown, Pa., company reports a strong first quarter.

Kentucky gas co. drills into cemetery

Workers were trying to drill at a new site, and didn't realize that they were in an old, hidden cemetery.

Utah cemetery running out of space

Officials bought local soccer fields in 1995, knowing that someday they'd need to be turned into some 11,000 cemetery plots, but that day is coming soon.