{"id":96335,"date":"2024-05-17T13:11:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T13:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelandmark.com\/?p=96335"},"modified":"2024-05-17T13:11:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T13:11:13","slug":"memorial-day-events-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/2024\/05\/17\/memorial-day-events-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day events"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"byline\"><\/div>\n<p>Several of the Wachusett towns have announced their plans for Memorial Day events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAXTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join us for the annual Memorial Day Parade &amp; Ceremony. Starting at 8:30 a.m., join Paxton Boy Scouts Pack 105 for breakfast at the First Congregational Church. Beginning at 10 a.m., the parade will start from the Public Safety Building, 576 Pleasant St., to the town common, with the ceremony to follow. Rain location is the Paxton Center School.<\/p>\n<p>After the ceremony, join Paxton American Legion Post 306 in paying respect (gun salute) at each of the three cemeteries in town: Old Cemetery behind Congregational Church; Mooreland Cemetery at WWII Memorial, 261 Richards Ave.; Worcester County Memorial Park, 217 Richards Ave.<\/p>\n<p>Post 306 invites everyone to the Legion Hall, 885 Pleasant St., for a luncheon following the last gun salute at WCMP.<\/p>\n<p><strong>STERLING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Hiram O. Taylor American Legion Post 189 has announced that Sterling\u2019s annual Memorial Day Parade will be held Monday, May 27, beginning at 11 a.m. at Hillside Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Buses for participants will start running at 10 a.m. from the Legion Hall on School Street to the Fire Station on Main Street, then to Hillside Cemetery on Route 62. Marchers will begin formation at 10:45 a.m. The parade will proceed to Oak Hill Cemetery, Old Cemetery, center of town, the Memorial Area behind the Fire Station for observance.<\/p>\n<p>The Avenue of Flags will be on display Sunday, May 26, from 9 a.m. to Monday, May 27, at 3 p.m. at Hillside Cemetery, weather permitting. Anyone, including Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, who would like to help honor deceased veterans should arrive at the cemetery at 9 a.m. Sunday to help raise the flags.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOLDEN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Details of the annual Memorial Day Parade were unavailable at press time, but there are rumors that a tank has been secured to participate in the roll down Main Street. For more information, be sure to check the May 23 issue of The Landmark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of the Wachusett towns have announced their plans for Memorial Day events. PAXTON Join us for the annual Memorial Day Parade &amp; Ceremony. Starting at 8:30 a.m., join Paxton Boy Scouts Pack 105 for breakfast at the First Congregational Church. Beginning at 10 a.m., the parade will start from the Public Safety Building, 576 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}