Sunday 5/26
Grave decoration @Beechwoods Cemetery- 9:30 AM
Monday 5/27
Memorial Day ceremony at Memorial Plaza @11AM, followed by ceremony for those lost at sea @12:30 at Hudson Park.
Presented by the American Legion Post 8 and City of New Rochelle Veterans Advisory Committee.
The reduced schedule is a result, in part, of a decision by the City of New Rochelle to disassociate from Peter Parente at the request of Parente’s brother-in-law, Council Member Lou Trangucci.
Trangucci is up for election in November.
“It’s election year this November,” said Parente in a recent Facebook post. “Let’s send a message to city hall…time for new blood and a new direction for the city we all once loved”.
Parente has portrayed himself as a civil rights victim on the grounds that his free speech rights were denied because the City Council removed Parente from the New Rochelle Veterans Advisory Committee after he posted a xenophobic rant on Facebook.
“All of Memorial Day events are cancelled this year,” said Parente. “Because our ass-wipe mayor and his cronies on city council.”
Former New Rochelle Veterans Advisor Peter Parente : “I am not a racist”
Mayor bramson is a piece of shit.people look forward to memorial day celebration.an building all these horrible buildings.where are the places to shop.he should be removed.look at all the holes in the streets.city pays enough an all they get is taxes raised nothing to show for it.memorial highway from hugenot to Lockwood needs repaving.union an Warren street light was out forever I called they said they had no money to replace. Well what are taxpayers paying for.shame on you bramson.