Vets say they’ll march on Memorial Day, permit or not, but hope to do it ‘the right way’
Updated May 10, 2021;
Posted May 10, 2021
The Vietnam Veterans of American march at the Memorial Day Parade on Forest Avenue on Sunday, May 26, 2019. (Staten Island Advance/Shira Stoll)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Staten Island’s veterans and their supporters intend to march on Memorial Day whether or not they receive a permit.
U.S. Army veteran Lee Covino and U.S. Air Force veteran Ted Cohen said during a press conference at Hero Park in Tompkinsville that they’d prefer to proceed with a permit that the city’s already denied, but that local veterans organizations intend to march no matter what.
Veterans ask: Why can pot supporters march in NYC but we can’t have Memorial Day parade?
Updated May 10, 2021;
Posted May 10, 2021
The Vietnam Veterans of American march at the Memorial Day Parade on Forest Avenue on Sunday, May 26, 2019. (Staten Island Advance/Shira Stoll)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Local veterans want to know why they can’t march down Forest Avenue to celebrate Memorial Day, but just last week supporters of legal marijuana got to parade down Broadway carrying a giant joint.
James Haynes, CEO of United Staten Island Veterans’ Organization Inc. (USIVO), said they want to be able to “honor those veterans, current and past, who have served this great nation” in the annual parade that’s more than a century old.
City agrees to allow Memorial Day parade on Staten Island
Updated May 11, 2021;
Posted May 10, 2021
The Vietnam Veterans of American march at the Memorial Day Parade on Forest Avenue on Sunday, May 26, 2019. (Staten Island Advance/Shira Stoll)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Staten Island veterans will again march down Forest Avenue this Memorial Day, as Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to rescind his executive orders that prevented a permit.
James Haynes, the president of the United Staten Island Veterans Organizations (USIVO), and Brendan Lantry, an attorney working with USIVO, said Monday that they’d received the necessary commitments for the parade to go on after a series of meetings with the mayor’s office and the city Department of Veterans’ Services.
S.I. Vets see ‘double standard’ as pot proponents march down Broadway but they can’t have Memorial Day parade
Updated May 07, 5:21 PM;
Posted May 07, 1:42 PM
The Vietnam Veterans of American march at the Memorial Day Parade on Forest Avenue on Sunday, May 26, 2019. (Staten Island Advance/Shira Stoll)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Local veterans want to know why they can’t march down Forest Avenue to celebrate Memorial Day, but just last week supporters of legal marijuana got to parade down Broadway carrying a giant joint.
James Haynes, CEO of United Staten Island Veterans’ Organization Inc. (USIVO), said they want to be able to “honor those veterans, current and past, who have served this great nation” in the annual parade that’s more than a century old.
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A former New Kensington man acquitted last month in an Arnold shooting was sentenced Thursday to jail and probation terms for spitting on a fellow inmate and two guards in 2018.
Nicholas James Haynes, 24, was sentenced to up to 23 months in the Westmoreland County Prison but given credit for time spent in the jail on the charges since August 2018. He was ordered to serve a consecutive term of three years’ probation.
He pleaded guilty Thursday to a single count of aggravated harassment by a prisoner.