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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Ellwood City, PA) Volunteers at Locust Grove Cemetery in Ellwood City are asking the community for help maintaining the historic burial ground.

Some gravestones at the cemetery have stood for more than a century, but volunteers said mowing and landscaping have become increasingly difficult to manage this year.

North Sewickley Township Police Department shared a Facebook post Monday highlighting the cemetery’s challenges and need for assistance.

The post prompted community members, including Adam Kincaid, to step in and help.

“I seen his post and reacted and that I’d come out in the morning,” Kincaid said.

Others, including volunteer Jeff Syphrit, said they have spent years helping maintain the cemetery — tending not only to family gravesites, but the property as a whole.

“I seen his post and reacted and that I’d come out in the morning,” Kincaid said.

Volunteers said their goal is to have the cemetery cleaned up before Memorial Day weekend, when groups including the Boy Scouts of America and Girl Scouts of the USA traditionally place flags at veterans’ gravesites.