Cemetery

FARMINGTON -- A new memorial to war veterans at the city cemetery isn't expected to be in place before fall.

CLINTON -- Charges were filed Monday against a 38-year-old woman, regarding thefts from Clinton cemetery.

June Christine Clark, of Clinton, is charged with four counts of theft, class B misdemeanors, in Clinton's Justice Court. Her first court appearance is set for 2 p.m. April 25. More charges could be filed in Syracuse's Justice Court following an investigation, Clinton police said. Officers began investigating possible thefts from local cemeteries about a month ago.

CLINTON — Police are investigating thefts from Syracuse and Clinton cemeteries.

The Ogden City Cemetery crew will begin clean up of all holiday and floral arrangements on Monday. Patrons are encouraged to pick up all their flowers and grave decorations before that date.

Remembrances can be placed back on the graves after March 28. For more information, call the cemetery office at 801-629-8231.

SYRACUSE -- City officials are taking a hard look at offering the option of double burials in the city cemetery.

A double burial amounts to stacking one vault on top of another in one plot, instead of putting them side by side, said Mike Waite, director of Public Works.

Two hundred candles burning at Christmastime sounded beautiful to Mike Leavitt.

It was a custom a colleague told Leavitt about years ago, which the colleague did every year during the holidays at his Texas mortuary.

But Leavitt says he soon realized that, if 200 lighted candles sounded pretty, a few thousand would be even better.

"We want to do something spectacular," he thought back then, when he first decided to cover the grounds of his Ogden cemetery in December with 3,500 to 4,000 luminarias.