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Archive Home > 2009 > May > 23 > Bend considers selling cemetery

Bend considers selling cemetery

‘We just can’t provide all these services,’ one city official says

By Erin Golden / The Bulletin
May 23, 2009

For nearly a century, the city of Bend has maintained the 13-acre cemetery near the base of Pilot Butte — a quiet, tree-lined final resting place for more than 6,800 people.

With revenue generated from burial fees and lot sales, the city has mowed the grass, dug graves, coordinated....

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