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Bill would allow composting of human remains

By Riley Robinson

Jan 31 2022March 23, 2022

Carolyn Partridge

The practice, often called natural organic reduction, has been explicitly legalized by Washington, Oregon and Colorado in recent years.


People who love the land are getting interested in green burials

By Amanda Gokee

Jan 10 2021January 10, 2021

More towns in Vermont are adding natural burial sections to cemeteries because people are learning about the idea, and they like it. The nontraditional burials keep embalming fluids out of the earth.


Short-staffed due to Covid, overgrown cemeteries offer a historical view

By Mike Dougherty

Jun 21 2020June 21, 2020

Some of Vermont’s now-unmowed burial sites look about like they did a half-century ago.


Before Your Time: Tales behind the tombstones

By Mike Dougherty

Oct 25 2018

The centuries-old gravestones in Vermont cemeteries may offer only glimpses of the personal histories of the dead. But those markers still hold lessons for the people who visit and research them today.


UPDATED: After unmarked graves discovered, Warren set to exhume

By Elizabeth Hewitt

Sep 3 2017October 27, 2017

Warren cemetery

The discovery of misplaced burial sites, unusual but not unheard of among Vermont cemetery caretakers, kicked off a process that local officials and the family that owns the plot hope to conclude soon.


Supporters of ‘green burials’ seek change in law

By Alan J. Keays

Feb 19 2017

View from the Peacham Corner Cemetery. VTD/Josh Larkin

The measure would permit burials at a depth of at least 3½ feet, compared with the current 5-foot state requirement.


Vermont cemeteries face ‘Inspection Day’ challenges

By Kevin O'Connor

May 30 2016May 29, 2016

cemetery

More communities are struggling this Memorial Day to provide enough money and muscle to care for historic yet high-maintenance burial grounds.


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