Cemetery

KENT, Ohio -- Families have been known to skirt cemetery rules in trying to reunite Fido or Patches with their owners, slipping a tiny tub of ashes into a casket or sprinkling their remains at a grave site when no one's looking.

But come spring, animal lovers won't have to be surreptitious anymore at Standing Rock Cemetery.

OGDEN -- Weber County Sheriff’s Deputy Dan Halacy waits patiently at Ogden City Cemetery before performing his sad duty of playing "Taps" to honor slain Ogden police officer Jared Francom.

FARMINGTON -- A proposal to expand the city cemetery -- potentially adding up to 1,600 burial plots in three phases -- will be presented to residents who live in the region as a possible solution to shrinking burial space in the city.

FARMINGTON -- City officials are renewing their efforts to find new cemetery space.

The city is running out of cemetery lots, and options for a new burial ground are getting harder to find. City leaders have discussed the pending problem for several years and are renewing that effort.

WEST HAVEN -- Those who wish to be buried in West Haven will soon be able to.

SYRACUSE -- Burial costs for both residents and nonresidents in Syracuse City Cemetery are increasing.

OGDEN -- The Weber County Heritage Foundation wants to help former Ogden Mayor Frank Francis keep a promise he made in 1921. The promise is still in place but has grown a bit worn, bent and crumbly over the decades.