Plants needed for Arlington

The annual drive to add plantings to Arlington Cemetery is coming up next month. Landscapers and growers who wish to add their plants to our national shrine are encouraged to do so. You can get the details at Lawn and Landscape Magazine

Here's the link for the Professional Landscape Network, as well. The event is part of the organization's annual trip to lobby lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

Mass. town views changes to cemetery regulations

The folks in Sudbury haven't amended cemetery regulations in two decades, so they want to show the proper respect for the dead.

Town sees cemetery as key to downtown revival

No, no pun intended with that headline. A town council in the Cincinnati area is taking over a cemetery from a local church. Some folks, including the mayor, are opposed, because the church is not giving any money for maintenance, but Councilman Ryan Zech, chairman of the parks and playground committee, said: "From our perspective, I think we see this as a way to kick-start any revitalization of our downtown, our business district and our residential areas also."

Student's overseas project

A college student spruces up a Jewish cemetery in Belarus destroyed during World War II.

"It didn't look like a cemetery," Antil said. "We had to cut down trees, burn brush and put a fence around it. Everyone worked together and we did get a lot of help from the village."

Update on noted Baltimore black cemetery

Here's the latest on Mount Auburn, a noted African-American cemetery. The original story is here.

Space-saving measures in Britain

A London cemetery is burying two bodies per grave because of dwindling cemetery space.

Canadian expansion to cost taxpayers

Improvements of this cemetery will cost local taxpayers 1 percent more.

Flag bandits

Just when you thought it was safe to put out flags for Memorial Day ...

Transition from cemetery to memorial park

A no-longer used cemetery in the Syracuse, N.Y., is being turned into a memorial park.

New landscapers in Virginia

Some new cuties are tending to a Lynchburg, Va., cemetery

Cincy area cemetery in dire straits

A local council wants to take over a dilapidated cemetery, but others raise concerns about finances.

Key vote coming in Bucks Co. Pa.

A local school board that wants to sell land to a developer who intends to sell land for a veterans cemetery is scheduled to act on the proposal this week.

Johnstown cemetery work

Volunteers are working on a bike train and other greenery at a historic cemetery.

Planning should do more

Here's a column that notes the planning community could do more about cemeteries.

Wilmington, Del.'s $13,000 grass bill

The city government is coming to the rescue for an unkept, and unkempt, cemetery.

"Not many" graves left in Massachusetts cemetery

A local government tries to find a place to expand.

Pa. cemetery sinking, Army Corps blamed

An old cemetery is sinking, and some advocates say it's caused by erosion after Army Corps of Engineers used soil from the riverbed to build roads alongside the river.

Neglected site in Illinois

A report about a place that is overgrown in an Illinois town.

Texas cemetery feels the squeeze

Tucked between a car dealership and an apartment complex is a neglected, overgrown cemetery in Texas.