The Oregonian
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Metro mistakenly sold pioneer cemetery grave sites that were owned by others.
It involves Metro, land use and a bit of controversy. Nothing new there.
But this is different. You know the 14 pioneer cemeteries that Metro manages in the Portland area? Lone Fir and the others? Metro announced that 640 unoccupied grave sites, bought and reserved by people planning a final resting place, were incorrectly resold to others.
Oh, the complications.
Read the full article at OregonLive.com
EDITORIAL NOTE: Metro is the Portland, Oregon, area local regional government serving than 1.5 million residents in Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington counties and the 25 cities in the Portland region.
