{"id":323546,"date":"2026-08-17T23:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323546\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T23:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:12:08","slug":"senator-schumer-pushes-for-funding-to-improve-safety-at-veterans-cemetery-in-seneca-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323546\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Schumer pushes for funding to improve safety at veterans cemetery in Seneca County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romulus, N.Y. \u2014 A new push was made Monday to improve safety and accessibility at New York\u2019s first state veterans cemetery in Seneca County.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Chuck Schumer was in Romulus Monday calling for $5 million in federal funding for the Hallowed Ground.<\/p>\n<p>He says the money would help upgrade the gateway and entrance, expand capacity, and preserve the dignity of the cemetery\u2019s sacred grounds.<\/p>\n<p>MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/13wham.com\/news\/local\/macedon-church-celebrates-225-years-with-burial-dedication-event-first-baptist-church-macedon-revolutionary-war-gravestones-former-church-cemetery-wayne-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mother-daughter team working to restore veterans&#8217; damaged headstones<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not forgetting; we will remain vigilant, and I\u2019m sure the next generation will remain vigilant to keep this cemetery up and keep improving it,\u201d said Schumer. \u201cIt is saying to our veterans, we will never forget you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The money would also add 300 new burial plots, fencing and lighting, stormwater infrastructure, and help maintain and care for veteran headstones.<\/p>\n<p>_______<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Romulus, N.Y. \u2014 A new push was made Monday to improve safety and accessibility at New York\u2019s first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-323546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}