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Should CT use radar to count the bodies at a historic Wallingford cemetery? Advocates say yes.
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The entrance to the Center Street Cemetery in Wallingford, photographed on April 26, 2021.Arnold Gold / Hearst Connecticut Media
WALLINGFORD The Center Street Cemetery has been a resting place for town residents since for more than 300 years.
It is now is the site of a debate over whether ground-penetrating radar should be used to determine whether there is an accurate count of how many people are buried there.
A small group of residents, led by Bill Comerford, wants to have the Connecticut state archaeologist use the ground-penetrating radar as the first step in developing an accounting of how many people are buried there, who they are and how much space remains in the historic cemetery. Aili McKeen, another resident who supports the use of the radar, said a fire at Town Hall during the 1800s destroyed all burial records prior to that date.
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Michaela Chesin, Banner Staff
WELLFLEET There is only one contested race on the ballot for the annual town election on June 14 an open three-year seat on the Cemetery Commission.
“I wouldn’t run if I didn’t feel like I had to,” commission candidate Donna Rickman said. Commission incumbent David Agger is also running again, having served on the commission for nine years.
One issue, from Rickman’s perspective, is a cemetery restoration project funded by Community Preservation Act funds by town meeting voters in 2014, 2017 and 2020.
Questions about the ongoing restoration at Pleasant Hill and Duck Creek cemeteries arose around the time of the annual town meeting last September. At that town meeting a majority of the Select Board did not recommend spending the proposed $10,000, which would have made the total money granted around $96,000.