Tekamah Cemetery. (Erin Bamer/Nebraska Examiner)

TEKAMAH, Neb. — After a months-long dispute, the maintenance of several rural cemeteries in Burt County seems to have reached a resolution, not through the creation of a new board, but a much simpler answer.

Some residents have been pleading with the Tekamah Cemetery District to boost their efforts to maintain three rural cemeteries within the district’s boundaries. Several contend that the board is too focused on maintaining the largest cemetery in the area — Tekamah Cemetery — and let the other cemeteries fall into disrepair.

“When you see the scale of it, it’s so one-sided,” said one resident Lisa Anderson.

Months went by with little to no progress until Anderson proposed at the board’s Sept. 18 meeting that the residents themselves c

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