Just in time for Memorial Day, the City of Syracuse was proclaimed as a Purple Heart City and Syracuse leaders launched a new program honoring veterans and active-duty military in the City of Syracuse.
Banners for the Grand Island Hometown Hero project were revealed on Tuesday. The banners were being attached to light poles, with the hope to have them up by Memorial Day.
Grand Island honors “Hometown Heroes” with banners lining the way to the new state Veterans Cemetery.Banners now adorn flagpoles along Capital Avenue in the are