KEENE, NH – Communities will gather across the Monadnock Region this weekend to celebrate Memorial Day this weekend.

On Sunday a service will be held at the Pine Grove Cemetary in Marlborough at noon, followed by a parade from Main Street to Veteran’s park, stepping off at 2 pm.

On Monday Keene’s parade will begin at 10 am on Gilbo Avenue and head north up Main Street and onto Washington Street up to the Rec Center, immediately followed by a ceremony there. There is no parking on either side of Washington Street from Central Square to Washington Avenue from 9 am to noon.

In Rindge, the town’s observance will begin at 12:30 Monday afternoon with a tribute to World War II Veterans at the Rindge School. The parade will step off at 1:00 on Payson Hill Road and march to the Goddard Road Cemetary for a tribute at the Civil War monument. It will then return to the center of town for more tributes and conclude at Veterans Memorial Park. The Cathedral of the Pines will hold it’s annual service Tuesday at 10 am.

moving from South Winchester Street south to the Denman Thompson Bridge, where a ceremony will be held honoring the U.S. Navy. It will continue on the street to the cemetery, where a ceremony will honor Civil War veterans. The parade will conclude at the Community Church of West Swanzey on Holbrook Avenue for a final service and wreath-laying. Presented by the American Legion Post 84.

Meanwhile over in Swanzey the festivities will begin with the parade at 2 pm and move south from South Winchester Street to the Denman Thompson bridge for one ceremony, then it will continue to the cemetery for another, and conclude at the Community Church of West Swanzey for a final service and wreath-laying.

The observances begin bright and early in Jaffrey at 7:30 Monday morning as troops visit cemeteries in town. The parade will step off at 10:45 am at the Blake Street parking lot and conclude at the Buddy Monument common with a flag raising at noon.

Dublin’s parade will step off from the Yankee Publishing parking lot at 11:15 Monday morning and head to the cemetery for a brief service, then continue to the flagpole for a ceremony. Hinsdale’s parade will begin at 10 am at the cemetery on Depot Street and go down Main Street, and Troy’s will begin at 10:30 in the Town Common.