Volunteers are welcome, but talk to department heads first, Perkins tells city in wake of cemetery dust up

Selma Mayor James Perkins Jr. held a news conference last week in an attempt to bury a controversy concerning conditions in the city cemetery.

The larger issue discussed in the June 30 conference was the upkeep of the city, in particular its four cemeteries.

The more immediate issue was Perkins’ defense of an encounter on June 28 between community volunteer Lemarkus Snow and Cemetery Director Reginald Wells and some of his crew at Old Live Oak Cemetery. Police officers arrived on the scene to deal with the situation, as did Perkins.

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