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Burial plot rates may rise at cemetery
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Alta Vista Cemetery employees dig out a hole for planting a new willow tree. From left, they are Lee Wood, Jason Sisk, Harold Weber and Stephen Parker.
The price of burial spaces may be rising at Gainesville’s Alta Vista Cemetery. City Council is set to give its first look tonight at an ordinance that would increase prices at the city-owned final resting place for the first time in more than a decade. “It’s kind of a readjustment, and we’re trying to do it (in such a way) to be thoughtful about people, especially in this time of need,” Superintendent Tommy Hunt said Monday.