State Rep. Pat Harkins has heard from many of his neighbors, who have family members buried at Lakeside Cemetery, upset with the upkeep.

One of them, Monica Carson, recalled Memorial Day, when her father, who purchased a plot at Lakeside in 2023 after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis, asked a groundskeeper why the grounds were in such bad shape and then asked to speak the owner that he bought the plot from, originally.

Harkins also said that he has taken concerns like Carson's to Harrisburg to see what, if anything, be done.

Xavier Graham told Erie News Now:

"We went to court yesterday and the man they say we attacked was charged for his actions."