Memorial day observances

LYNNParade steps off at 1:30 p.m. from North Shore Community College parking lot, follows Washington Street, Broad Street, Market Street, City Hall Square, North Common Street, Park Street, Boston Street ending in front of Pine Grove Cemetery.Gannon Golf Course Memorial Day observance next to the clubhouse. Members who died during the previous years will be honored.
LYNNFIELDParade Monday. It will assemble in the parking lot of Our Lady of the Assumption Church at 8:15 a.m. and will proceed to the South Burying Ground on Salem Street and then to the Willow Cemetery on Summer Street. Ceremonies will be conducted at each location. The parade will return to the South Lynnfield Fire Station for a brief recess before reassembling at the middle school at 10 a.m. marching to the West Burying Ground, Old Burying Ground and Forest Hill Cemetery. Ceremonies will be conducted at each location. It will end on the Common at 11.
MARBLEHEADParade begins at Old Town House and proceeds to Memorial Park then to Waterside Cemetery.
NAHANTParade steps off at 9:30 a.m. and proceeds down Spring Road to Emerald Road to Willow Road, arriving at the wharf around 10 to 10:15, where the traditional ceremonies will take place.It will then proceed up Wharf Street to Nahant Road, past Town Hall to Greenlawn Cemetery, where the traditional ceremonies will take place around 11 a.m. It then proceeds down Nahant Road to Veterans Park for concluding ceremonies, which will take place around 11:30.
PEABODYParade Monday marches down Cedar Grove Cemetery 9:30 a.m., where ceremony begins (with cannon fire approximately 9:30). Parade begins at 11 a.m. at Allens Lane and Washington Street and proceeds to City Hall for a 12:30 p.m. ceremony.
REVEREParade Monday at 11 a.m. on the lawn of the American Legion Building at 249 Broadway. Guest speaker is Cheryl Lussier Poppe, superintendant of the Chelsea Soldier’s Home. Master of Ceremonies is Nicholas Bua, director of Veterans’ Services. The ceremony will include laying of wreaths, musical selections, the playing of taps and a recitation of the names of Revere’s war dead from the Revolutionary War through the Gulf War. In case of inclement weather, the ceremony will be moved inside the American Legion Hall.
SAUGUSVeterans Council Memorial Day Parade starts on Jackson Street at 9 a.m. to Cliftondale Square along Lincoln Avenue to Central Street then onto Winter Street to the Riverside Cemetery for a Special Ceremony at the Veterans Burial Lot. The parade will reform and march to Saugus Town Hall for the memorial ceremony with Master of Ceremonies Capt. Stephen Castinetti, USN (ret.) and a Special Tribute by the “Singing Trooper,” Sgt. Daniel M. Clark.
SWAMPSCOTTMemorial Day Ceremony Monday at 12 noon at the Veterans’ lot of the Swampscott Cemetery on Essex Street. There will be a coalition at the VFW Post, 8 Pine St., immediately following the ceremony for participants and attendees.