During the past year, the granite industry has seen an unprecedented spike in demand for headstones. Manufacturers say it's related to the pandemic, but not quite in the way you might expect. We have ...

BARRE, Vt. — Giuliano Cecchinelli, a beret and a beard framing his expressive face, drove a chisel into Barre Gray granite as he shaped a religious sculpture for a large cemetery monument. Dust puffed ...

JOPLIN, Mo. (KODE/KSNF) – Supply shortages are everywhere these days. One shortage is leaving some families looking for answers when a loved one passes away. There’s always been a short lag time ...

QUEENS, New York (WABC) -- It wasn't easy for the Queens widow to save up more than $5,000 to buy the impressive black granite headstone -- a tribute to her long lost husband. But months after it was ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Even for those who are grieving, the supply chain crisis is unavoidable. A shortage of granite is hitting local monument and headstone makers hard. “I’ve never had anything like ...

One of the toughest parts of Jonathan Modlich’s job these days is telling grieving families that he doesn’t know when he’ll have the headstones for their loved ones ready. The pandemic-fueled upheaval ...

The number of lives lost from COVID-19 in the U.S. reached half a million Monday, with the real total likely even higher. The figure represents roughly one in 670 Americans who died of the virus since ...

BLOOMFIELD — Not long after Gail Batchelor died in August of 2022, her husband ordered a black granite headstone to mark the 71-year-old’s grave in Mitchell Cemetery. He paid $1,800 in advance to ...

Eighteen thousand people worked in the Barre granite industry at its peak in 1929 — quarrying the rock, carving and shaping the stone, creating the tools used in the stone sheds. These days, that ...