With cemeteries filling up, local trustees are adding land and allowing cremains

The Old Cemetery in Rootstown, pictured in 2022. Jeremy Brown/The Portager

With cemeteries filling up, local trustees are adding land and allowing cremains

- Wendy DiAlesandro

Brimfield trustees are looking to buy more land for the township cemetery, which is running out of space.

They’re hoping to obtain five acres adjoining Restland Cemetery on state Route 43, but the owners of that acreage, Pitts Retreading & Tire Company of Cuyahoga Falls, has so far rejected the township’s $25,000 offer. 

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