Perrysburg Messenger Journal Letters to the Editor
Policy on Letters
We welcome readers' opinions on matters of interest to our community.
The weekly deadline for Letters to the Editor is noon on Friday. Letters should be limited to 300 words. Letters from the same writer will be accepted no more frequently than every 30 days.
Due to limited space, coverage of community news, and production costs, only two letters regarding a certain issue will be printed each week. All other letters will be posted on this web site.
The newspaper reserves the right to accept or reject letters, and to edit them for clarity and length.
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Please limit letters to 300 words.
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Dear Editor:
It would seem that the joint Perrysburg City and Township cemetery board, with the approval of Perrysburg City Council, has supposedly arrived at a solution or remedy in dealing with the short fall of current funding. This “remedy” may not be acceptable to many of our citizens.
Their solution to the problem is to sell off currently unutilized cemetery land saying that the present burial ground area in the cemetery is adequate for the distant future. We can only hope that they have researched all of the cemetery needs.
If this land, which is being sold for residential development, is needed for future burial grounds (and is available), the price of purchase for the cemetery could be very costly.
Will cemetery grounds and residential development be able to be integrated without being an eyesore and future problem? We should be proud of our historic Fort Meigs Cemetery and its staff's good care of the grounds. The souls who lie at rest here represent our town, our heritage, and our pride.
Let’s make sure that we make the right decision and not make it a policy of selling off cemetery ground to meet financial obligations. We all should keep track of how all of this plays out: many of us will find our resting places in these grounds, if there’s a place for us. Richard Williams back to top
