Tempe is looking to breathe new life into its only cemetery.

The Tempe City Council will consider allocating $1.4 million for more graves and a six-story mausoleum to improve the historic Double Butte Cemetery.

March 2, 2005

Tempe trivia and tales of the city’s most notable residents will be featured on Sunday during the inaugural narrated walking tour of the Tempe Double Butte Cemetery. Tickets are $15 each and can be bought online at www.tempe.gov/events/tales.

They’ve taken down the “no vacancy” sign at Tempe’s Double Butte Cemetery. Tempe residents who have lamented for the past 14 years that they couldn’t buy a place to be buried in their own community now have a chance — while the burial plots last.

This coming Tuesday, when the Sons of Confederate Veterans gather at Globe Cemetery, the historical veterans organization will honor Pvt. Wesley Lancaster, who has been buried in an unmarked grave for nearly a century.

Check out a listing of some of the Memorial day events that are going on.

Memorial Day 2007 is upon us, and so is the traditional start to summer. Boats are shipshape, loaded into their trailers and ready to hit the water. Valley residents mop perspiration from their brows and look longingly to cooler climes. Outdoors lovers retrieve their camping tents and sleeping bags from closets.

ASU CARILLON TRIBUTE: Arizona State University’s Symphonic Carillon is a memorial to those in the ASU community who gave their lives in service to their country. Their names will be read at noon Wednesday in front of the Memorial Union on the Tempe campus.

Talk about your spec home. Hardscrabble rancher Niels Petersen must have stunned all who knew him when he suddenly turned out his pockets in the spring of 1892 to build an elegant Queen Anne Victorian bungalow.

February 7, 2005

Transportation officials are looking to nearly double the width of Interstate 10 — boosting part of the highway to a staggering 24 lanes.