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Cemetery committee raises concern about dead plantings; selectmen approve veterans memorial archival request
Summary
A cemetery committee member told the town two of three newly planted village cemetery trees are dead and recommended not replanting; the board approved signing a letter to the Maine State Archives (via the Roxbury Historical Society) to obtain veteran service dates for a memorial wall and agreed to appoint committee members for the Veterans Memorial.
At the meeting a cemetery committee member reported that two of three trees planted in the village cemetery had died and requested the board allow them to remain unplanted in future because roots can grow into and damage headstones. The minutes record the committee member's recommendation that those trees not be replanted.
Separately, the board approved appointing committee members for a Veterans Memorial. Selectmen reviewed and approved a draft letter from the Roxbury Historical Society to the Maine State Archives asking for veteran records with service dates to support a memorial wall; Ray Hodsdon moved to sign the letter and Matthew Patneaude seconded, vote recorded 2-0. The board recorded that the cemetery's burial-location item had no update at this time.
