Highland Cemetery to begin expansion in April

Next month, the Highland Cemetery will start the process of expanding to allow for more than 9,000 new graves, an expansion that will be primarily funded through a 15 percent rise in cemetery fees at the end of June of this year.

Hill County Cemetery District Assistant Manager Perry Atchison said they are set to run out of room soon, with fewer than 1,000 graves sites still open, so they need to make more space.

Atchison said the district already owns land west of the current cemetery and they will be able to use that to build new blocks, one at a time, as needed, in that area, along with a ne...