If the dead could talk...they might ask "Can you hear me now?" in Junction City. A plan to place a Verizon cell phone tower in a city cemetery is being debated by the Junction City Commission. Commissioner Scott Johnson told WIBW that some of his family is buried at the Highland Cemetery, and they wouldn't mind the tower being there:
But the Junction City mayor says there are other, less controversial sites where Verizon could put the 150-foot-tall tower. He's asking his colleagues to consider alternative placement options when the final vote comes up next week.