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Communities and veterans organizations will return to the cemetery this Memorial Day to honor their fallen servicemen and women.
COVID-19 concerns caused many communities to cancel last year’s Memorial Day events or limit their activities. Some of those communities will be bringing back their parades while most will reopen up the ceremonies to the public.
Memorial Day is always observed on the last Monday in May. This year it is May 31.
See how your community will commemorate the lives of those lost while serving in the U.S. military. Not all communities had their plans finalized by the publishing of this article. Their events will be published separately when they become available.
See how your community will commemorate the lives of those lost while serving in the U.S. military.
This article will be updated as more communities finalize their plans.
Memorial Day in Ashland County
City of Ashland
The traditional parade will return this year after the city held a small program last year to conform to COVID-19 restrictions. This year, the parade will start staging at 9 a.m. then step off at 10 a.m. The procession will take its normal route south on Union Street then West on Main Street to the Ashland Cemetery.
The parade will include the local veterans organizations. Mayor Matt Miller will serve as the guest speaker at the ceremony in the cemetery.
Jim Brewer
Special to the Ashland Times-Gazette
LOUDONVILLE - Ever since the Loudonville-Mohican Visitors Bureau built its visitors center on Ohio 3 across the road from Mohican State Park Class A Campground, Jan Seabold of rural Loudonville has volunteered to keep its flower beds and shrubs beautiful.
“And she does a fantastic job of it,” says Virginia Reynolds, former member of the Visitor’s Bureau Board of Directors who asked Seabold if she could “help” maintain the grounds.
Actually, the Gardner’s Guild club planted the original beds, but Seabold has exclusively worked to maintain them since.
“She does much more than that,” Reynolds said. “She takes care of everything, including transplanting plants from her own garden, moving plants around, weeding, mulching and trimming. She just does it, and it looks great. She is a wonderful, giving, caring person who works as hard on the Visitor Center flower beds as she does on her own.”
County Engineer Chris Young applied for the $677,350 grant, and the county match was $98,650.
The project covers about a mile stretch of road from the Knox County line to the covered bridge on Wally Road. This is a good project, making a trail for bicycles and people walking along the river there, Commissioner Rob Ault said. I think it s a great thing for people s safety.
Ault commended the engineer for pursuing the project, which is expected to get under way in September. When you go down there on the weekend during the summer, there are a lot of people there, Ault said. You see a lot of canoers walking along the road. Now they will have a safe trail to walk on.