LACONIA — It took more than a year, along with community engagement and a lot of hard work, but those buried at Primrose Cemetery on the north end of the city have been afforded dignity in their resting place.

A coordinated effort to memorialize those buried there and restore the cemetery was largely finished last week, just in time to beat the fast-approaching winter, though there’s important work which remains.

Primrose Cemetery, located on a quarter-acre plot tucked away in an industrial park off North Main, is the final resting place for some few dozen souls, mostly former residents of the county farm. It was little-known before a group of citizens volunteered to clean it up and, fatefully, asked county employees for permission to remove a fallen tree.

When they approached Jon Bosse

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