Rural Cemetery Vandalized

"It's just uncalled for that somebody could desecrate a cemetery like that." RURAL PENFIELD — Maureen Hughes felt only one thing — "disgust" — when she realized that large sections of a 200-year-old, ornate wrought-iron fence had been stolen from one of Champaign County's oldest cemeteries late last month. "It's just uncalled for that somebody could desecrate a cemetery like that," the retired one-time police officer said. read more

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