Committee: No dogs in Boulder Cemetery

The dog days of the Boulder Cemetery could come to an end before the dog days of summer begin.

At a meeting on June 9, Boulder Cemetery Committee members approved a draft of Resolution 2021-08, which prohibits all pets except for service animals from entering the Boulder Cemetery. The resolution could go into effect after a June 21 public hearing before the City Council. 

Committee Secretary Patricia Lewis said that the new resolution aims to replace a 1952 resolution that Town Clerk Ellen Harne discovered several months ago. That resolution established the cemetery as “sacredly devoted to the interment of the human dead.” Among other things, Resolution 2021-08 prohibits alcohol and other refreshments, glass containers, all animals except for service animals, and the planting of trees, bushes and shrubs.