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Wallsburg council discusses cemetery right-of-way and historic use after residents raise access concerns
Summary
Council members and residents reviewed competing claims around an undeveloped lane near the cemetery, debating whether a fence line or an historical center line of a road should prevail and whether to vacate, maintain or repurpose the right-of-way.
Residents and council members spent a substantial portion of the Jan. 16 Wallsburg work meeting discussing an undeveloped lane that crosses part of the local cemetery and adjacent private property. The conversation focused on whether the fence line or a mapped road center line defines the usable right-of-way and how historic burials and past deeds affect any change.
Mary Piscitelli, a council member, raised concerns about graves from the 1960s that appear inside the area under dispute and asked…
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