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Residents urge Syracuse City Council to protect cemetery after repeated headstone damage
Summary
Family members described recurring damage to headstones and memorials at Syracuse Cemetery and asked the council to consider security cameras and other protections; council did not take action at the meeting but heard extended testimony.
Family members urged the Syracuse City Council on Tuesday to take steps to protect gravesites at the Syracuse Cemetery after repeated damage to headstones, benches and vases.
At public comment, a resident described finding planters and a headstone broken and left on the ground, saying the damage had affected multiple family plots. Matthew Page read a written statement from Blair…
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