WHO NEEDS A LAWN MOWER?

A rural town in Vermont has managed to shave thousands off its budget and help save the environment by replacing a lawn mower with four-legged grazers. Officials in Charlotte rented a pair of goats and a pair of sheep from a farmer to keep the town’s cemetery lawns trimmed this summer, and reckon to have saved the town $2,000 in fuel costs. Charles Russell, a town selectman, admitted receiving one complaint that the animals were soiling the hallowed ground. But, he said, “it’s not very respectful to spray gasoline and fumes all over the gravestones either.”