Veteran and military families are upset that items they left at the gravesides of loved ones at Sandhills State Veterans Cemetery have been discarded.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy will lead a ceremony in the Mandeville Cemetery on Dec. 14 in which about 200 live Christmas wreaths will be placed on the graves of veterans of all wars.

Mayfield and Graves County are going to pause tornado clean-up to celebrate Christmas Dec. 21. This is a coordinated multiagency event.

The wheelie bin was piled high with fresh wreaths and floral arrangements that people had left on the graves of their loved ones for Christmas. “This has never happened before in the 25 years I ...

Marine veteran Randy Abernathy plays “Taps” before people lay wreaths by veteran’s graves at Seven Pines National Cemetery during American Legion Post 242’s annual event Sat., Dec. 19, 2020.