Concord will mark Memorial Day with its annual downtown parade.
State Sen. Dan Feltes will be the parade marshal and keynote speaker.
The parade will assemble in the Storrs Street shopping center parking lot at 8:30 a.m. Monday and get under way at 9 a.m. The route will follow Pleasant Street Extention to North Main Street, then to Franklin Street. At Franklin Street, the participants will turn onto North State Street and march to the State House.
While the ceremony has stopped at the Old North Cemetery in past years, this year will conclude with laying of wreaths and playing of taps at the State House arch.
The city’s cemetery office and volunteers have also placed American flags on the graves of 3,500 veterans buried in Concord. Additional flags are available at Blossom Hill Cemetery if needed; the cemetery office there will be open all weekend and Memorial Day from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
MEGAN DOYLE