Estimated read time: Less than a minute
This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.
TYRE, N.Y. (AP) — New York state's newest casino has 2,000 slot machines, 77 table games, 12 poker tables, a food court, a concert venue — and a cemetery.
The Las Vegas-style del Lago Resort and Casino opened Wednesday in the Cayuga County town of Tyre. The developer, Rochester-based Wilmorite, had to build the casino's parking lot around an old family cemetery containing the graves of people who farmed the surrounding land generations ago.
People who live nearby tell WSTM-TV in Syracuse (http://bit.ly/2l4nlzo ) that the decedents of those buried in the small cemetery didn't want them disturbed during construction.
Town officials say the casino plans to build a fence around the cemetery and make it accessible to the families whose loved-ones are buried there.
___
Information from: WSTM-TV, http://www.wstm.com
Copyright © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
