Cemetery tree cut down for city's Christmas tree
A city employee in Manchester, New Hampshire, has been reprimanded after getting a crew to cut a 50-foot spruce from a city cemetery for the downtown Christmas tree.
The tree that's now on Elm Street, across from Veterans Park, used to stand over graves at Pine Grove Cemetery.
The mayor's office says it did not know that a Parks, Recreation and Cemeteries crew had gotten the tree from the cemetery. The mayor's chief of staff says the employee has been reprimanded and that a new tree will be planted at Pine Grove.
The city says the employee looked to the cemetery after he failed to run an ad seeking the donation of a tree.
Not only is the tree dead wood, but it looks like this city worker has dead wood for a brain….
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