With Memorial Day right around the corner, Reminder Publishing is looking ahead to what communities will be up to in honor of the day.
The Hadley Memorial Day Parade will be on Sunday, May 25 at 2 p.m. Hadley American Legion Post 271 invites the public to participate in the annual parade. The full cemetery ceremony schedule for the day in Hadley can be viewed at hadleyparade.com.
On Sunday, May 25, Leeds Elementary School will be the site for a 1 p.m. ceremony and unveiling of a monument in honor of Donald M. Ducharme and Donald R. Smith who were from Leeds and KIA. Students from Leeds will be in attendance to read the pledge of allegiance and the Gettysburg Address.
In Northampton on Memorial Day, there will be a procession and ceremony before the Medal of Liberty is issued to the family of Ducharme. Lineup will begin at 9:30 a.m. at Trinity Row in Florence before heading to Park Street Cemetery. Procession to begin at 10 a.m.
Also on Memorial Day, Amherst will host a procession and ceremony from the Town Common to the War Memorial Pool, with step off at 9:30 a.m. and ceremony to follow. In Hadley the American Legion will host a 2 p.m. ceremony with a procession to begin at the completion of ceremony.
A brief ceremony by Cummington American Legion Post 304 will take place at the times and Hilltown locations noted below on Memorial Day:
- 8 a.m. in Worthington, at the memorial across from Town Hall
- 9 a.m. at West Cummington Cemetery
- 9:30 a.m. in Cummington, memorial at Community House
- 10 a.m. in Goshen, at the Goshen Cemetery on Mollison Hill Road
- 11 a.m. in Chesterfield at Veterans’ Park
- 1 p.m. in Plainfield at Hilltop Cemetery
