MORNING SENTINEL • January 21, 2025
The last of the century-old pine trees standing high over Goodwin Cemetery were cut down Jan. 10, leaving residents grappling over the loss of a grove that had looked over some of the town’s most historic headstones. The warrant article seeking to cut 20 trees at the cemetery passed at the town meeting last June, allotting a maintenance budget twice as high as in previous years. Yet some residents said they weren’t aware of the tree cutting included in the cemetery maintenance warrant article, and that the matter was discussed only briefly at the sparsely attended 2024 town meeting — leaving the question of why the trees had to come down in the first place. Town officials say the maintenance is necessary to protect historic gravestones.