A funny moment in Richmond:

At Richmond’s town meeting, Neil Moriarity zeroed in on a proposal to spend $8,595 to expand the Earl R. Howard Memorial Cemetery.He told his fellow citizens that, given the small town’s death rate, it would be financially prudent to do only half the job now. “There’s room for 40 people (in the cemetery) now,” he said, arguing that the proposed 2008 allocation could be safely pared by $4,000. “We can wait five years and do more (work) later on.” To which Norma Thibodeau, an advocate of doing the entire cemetery development job at one time, said, “I hope there’s no epidemic.” Her remark was greeted by laughter by the crowd, which then went on to vote through Moriarity’s spending cut.