TODAY

Bristol

Commanders of member organizations will lay wreaths at their respective corners throughout the town. Wreaths will be distributed from noon to 1 p.m. at the ITAM Veterans Post Home, 9 Court St.

North Attleboro

Parade steps off at 10 a.m. from Baptist Corner, North Washington Street, to Barrows Park. A dedication of six veteran streets will be held at noon.

North Kingstown

Seabee Museum and Memorial Park, 21 Iafrate Way, will dedicate new replica of its Fighting Seabee mascot at 10 a.m. Seekonk

Parade steps off at 10 a.m. from Atkin School, Newman Avenue, heading north to Seekonk Middle School.

TOMORROW

Attleboro

War Veterans Council annual sunrise service at Hillside Cemetery at 7:45 a.m. Memorial service will follow at St. TheresaChurch, Broadway, at 9 a.m. A short ceremony will be held at 10:30 a.m. at Woodlawn Cemetery, Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Cannon.

Bristol

Memorial service sponsored by the Bristol Veterans Council in chapel at R.I. Veterans Home, 9:45 a.m., followed by light meal in Bisbano building lobby. Charlestown

Parade will step off at Ridgewood Road at junction of Old Post Road (Route 1A) and proceed to Fort Neck Road at 1 p.m., followed by an observance and light meal at Ninigret Park.

Exeter

The Pawtuxet Valley Portuguese Cultural Society will hold a memorial ceremony for all Rhode Island veterans, especially those of Portuguese descent, at 2 p.m. at Rhode Island Veterans’ Monument on main road to chapel at R.I. Veterans Cemetery.

Parade to begin at 2 p.m. from the intersection of Sunderland and Ten Rod roads, down Ten Rod Road to Town Hall for ceremony.

Johnston

Johnston Parks and Recreation Department service honoring the 42 men from Johnston who died while serving their country, 9:30 a.m. at Johnston War Park bandstand.

Memorial service for all war dead at 11:30 a.m. at the Graniteville War Monument, corner of Putnam Avenue and Mathewson Street. Refreshments after ceremony. A procession to the monument will form at 11:20 on Serrel Sweet Road in front of Graniteville Baptist Church.

Little Compton

American Legion Post 37 will hold a flag retirement ceremony at 2 p.m. in front of Legion Hall, the Commons. Worn-out or torn flags can be brought for proper disposal.

Somerset

Veterans services will be held at 10 a.m. at the Methodist Church, Read Street.

Dedication and wreath-laying ceremony at noon at World War II memorial, Somerset Library, 1464 County St.

Warren

Memorial Day ceremonies begin at 9 a.m. at the Vietnam Memorial, Market Street, with placing of a wreath and firing of a cannon by the United Train of Artillery.

Warwick

The Jewish War Veterans, Department of Rhode Island, will hold annual Memorial Day service at 11 a.m. at Lincoln Park Cemetery, Post Road. Featured speakers will be U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, Governor Carcieri and R.I. National Guard Maj. General Robert Bray. Names of Jewish veterans who died during the last 12 months will be added to Wall of Honor.

Westport

Memorial service at 7 p.m. conducted by the Rev. Robert Hollis at Acoaxet Chapel, Howland Road.

MONDAY

Attleboro

South Attleboro parade will start at 8 a.m. from World War II Memorial at Lees Pond, Washington Street, and proceed along Route 1 and turn right at Route 123, stopping at monuments along route. Brief comments by local dignitaries at the closing ceremony at Newell Burying Ground.

Uptown parade steps off at 10:30 a.m. from the Knights of Columbus Hall, Hodges Street, and proceeds to Capron Park. Festivities will follow.

Barrington

The United Veterans Council of Barrington will hold ceremony at 8:30 a.m. at Victory Gate, Barrington High School, Lincoln Avenue, where there will be a placing of a wreath and roll call, reading names of Barrington’s wartime veterans. The parade will step off around 9:30 from the high school up Lincoln Avenue, to Upland Way, to Barrington Avenue, to Maple Avenue and ending at Town Hall. In case of rain, ceremony will be in high school auditorium.

Bristol

Parade will step off at 9:30 a.m. from North Burial Ground past VFW Post 237, where wreaths will be placed, to the Veterans Honor Roll Garden where a speaking program will feature Town Clerk Louis Cirillo. Light meal will follow at the Bristol Train of Artillery on State Street.

Burrillville

The Berard-Desjarlais American Legion Post 88 will conduct a memorial service at 9:30 a.m. at the post’s monument at Victory Highway and Douglas Pike in Nasonville, and a second ceremony will be at Freedom Park in Harrisville at 11 a.m.

Coventry

The Coventry Veterans Council’s parade will step off from McArthur Boulevard and Main Street and proceed to VFW Post 9404 on South Main Street at 10 a.m., with stops at memorials along route to pay homage to those who served and died in service to their country. Cumberland

Cumberland Veterans Council will hold annual service at 11 a.m. on Monastery Grounds. Keynote speaker will be Mayor Daniel J. McKee. The Cumberland High School Band will perform. In case of rain, event will be held at American Legion Post 14, 690 Broad St.

East Greenwich

Parade leaves Swift Gym, Peirce Street, at 10 a.m., to First Avenue for a brief ceremony at the Veteran’s Memorial Fountain. From there, parade travels to Main Street and ends at Town Hall for a closing ceremony.

East Providence

A Memorial Day Flag Ceremony will be held at 10:30 a.m. at the flagpole at Winslow Gardens & Linn Health Care Center, corner of Alexander Avenue (off North Broadway) and Irving Avenue (off Taunton Avenue). Event will include representatives from the Army Reserve and Navy Cruisers Sailors’ Association. Refreshments will be served following the ceremony.

Exeter

Rhode Island Chapter 48 of the U.S. Army Special Forces Association will assemble at the SFA memorial stone in R.I. Veterans’ Cemetery at 8:15 a.m., with breakfast at 9:30 a.m. at Camp Fogarty in East Greenwich.

At 1 p.m., Governor Carcieri and Gary Alexander, managing director of the R.I. Department of Human Services and the Division of Veterans Affairs, will host the 33rd-annual Memorial Day exercises at 1 p.m. at the R.I. Veterans Memorial Cemetery, honoring Rhode Island’s war dead at the World War II Memorial Monument off Memorial Drive.

Fall River

Parade will step off at 2 p.m. from Kennedy Park, South Main Street to the Municipal Veterans Memorial, 72 Bank St., for closing ceremonies which will include prayers and remarks from honorary marshals and Chaplain Navy Cmdr. Mitchell Schranz, from Naval Station Newport.

Chapter 207 of the Vietnam Veterans of America will hold a ceremony aboard battleship Massachusetts at noon. The one-hour ceremony will include guest speaker Iraqi veteran Lt. Col. Stephen Neary, a reading of the names of area residents who died in Vietnam, wreath laying, rifle salute and playing of taps.

Foster

Parade, American Legion Post 101, will begin at 8:30 a.m. the intersection of Foster Center and North roads. Jamestown

Parade steps off at 10 a.m. from the Jamestown School on Lawn Avenue and proceeds down Watson Avenue to North Main Road and Narragansett Avenue for a ceremony at the cemetery led by Cliff Largess. It will conclude with a program and ceremony at Memorial Square, East Ferry.

Little Compton

Parade will step off from Veteran’s Field at 10 a.m. marching twice around the Commons, ending on Pike’s Peak, at the west tip of the Commons, for annual memorial service. In case of rain, event will be in the Katherine B. McMahon Middle School gymnasium.

Lincoln

Parade begins at 11 a.m. from Smithfield Avenue at Pawtucket city line to Dow’s Square on Walker Street. The theme is “Honor Our Troops.”

30th-annual breakfast to be held at Sayles Memorial Congregational Church, 185 Chapel St., from 7:30 to 10 a.m. Cost is $7 for adults; $3.50 for children under age 12.

Newport

The Col. Wm. R. “Rich” Higgins detachment of the Marine Corps League will conduct wreath-laying ceremony at 10 a.m. at the Marine monument in Perrotti Park, America’s Cup Avenue.

A memorial ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. in Newport’s Storer Park, by the causeway to Goat Island, sponsored by VFW Conover-Leary Post 406. A noon ceremony, sponsored by the United Veterans Council of Newport County and American Legion Post 7, will be held on the Newport City Hall lawn with Navy Cmdr. Charles Maher as featured speaker.

The Parks & Recreation Department will open the World War I Monument in Miantonomi Park from 12:30 to 3 p.m., weather permitting.

North Kingstown

Parade begins at 10 a.m. from Wilson Park, West Main Street, Wickford, to the Grand Army of the Republic Memorial, at Elm Grove Cemetery, 960 Tower Hill Rd., for ceremonies at 11. Along the way, there will be wreath-laying ceremonies at Updike Park’s World War Memorial and Wickford Harbor.

North Providence

The North Providence VFW Post 10011, 354 Fruit Hill Ave., will host an ecumenical service at 10 a.m. in the main hall with American Legion Providence Post 1 and DAV Chapter 21, followed by an 11 a.m. memorial ceremony featuring political and community dignitaries. Light meal will follow.

North Smithfield

Parade, conducted by the Leclair Kozlik Logan Bassett VFW Post 6342, steps off from the corner of Route 102 and Route 5 on the Slatersville Plaza parking lot 10:30 a.m. and proceeds south on North Main Street to the Town Hall for a memorial service. At the conclusion of the program the parade will continue east on School Street to the VFW Post Home, 98 School St., where a collation will be served in the pavilion on Post grounds.

Pawtucket

Memorial Day ceremonies sponsored by the Pawtucket Veterans Council will begin at 9 a.m. at the Slater Park Shell and proceed to the Hiker Monument at Grove and Underwood streets, the Mineral Spring Avenue cemetery and end at approximately 11 a.m. at Veterans Memorial Park at Roosevelt Avenue and Exchange Street.

AMVETS and other Pawtucket veterans’ groups will conduct Memorial Day tributes at 9 a.m. at the veterans’ monument on Newport Avenue and at the Grupo Amigos Monument on Memorial Drive.

Portsmouth

The Portsmouth VFW Vieira Post 5390 will conduct a service at 11 a.m. at 822 Anthony Rd. in Common Fence Point featuring guest speaker and Naval Academy graduate Capt. Charles Hautau. Portsmouth High School student Kayla A. Carpenzano will read her first place Post 5390’s Voice of Democracy essay. The names of all deceased Post 5390 veterans will be read.

Rehoboth

Parade will step off at 10:15 a.m. from Rehoboth Congregational Church, 139 Bay State Rd., and proceed to Palmer River School, 326 Winthrop St., where the memorial service will be held.

Scituate

Parade steps off at 10:30 a.m. from Berkander Field and Institute Lane and proceeds west on Danielson Pike to Silk Lane to Greenville Road, to the steps of the Old Historical Congregational Church on Route 116, for ceremonies to honor its veterans.

Smithfield

The Smithfield Memorial VFW Post 2929 and Auxiliary and Balfour Cole American Legion Post 64 will conduct a joint memorial service at the veterans’ monuments at Deerfield Park at 10:30 a.m., beginning with a short parade of colors and a brief speaking program. Smithfield police and fire departments’ honor guards will pay respects. A firing volley and the playing of taps will end the ceremony.

South Kingstown

Parade sponsored by Washington County Post 916, Veterans of Foreign Wars, begins at 10 a.m. from the corner of School Street and Kingstown Road. It will travel to Dale Carlia Corner’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial for a brief ceremony, and then to Saugatucket Park for concluding ceremonies at about 11. In case of rain, parade will be canceled and ceremonies will be held at 10 a.m. at South Kingstown High School.

Somerset

Parade begins at 10 a.m. at Somerset High School, Luther Avenue, and will proceed to the World War I monument on Riverside Avenue for a wreath laying, before returning to VFW 8500, Washington Avenue at County Street (Route 138) for closing ceremony.

Swansea

Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, Brownies and American Legion Post 303 will meet at 8 a.m. at Mount Hope Cemetery on Milford Road to place American flags on graves of veterans.

American Legion Post 303 will hold a Memorial Day Mass at 9 a.m. in St. Francis of Assisi Church, 530 Gardners Neck Rd.

Annual wreath placing and color guard ceremony at 10 a.m. at Town Hall, 81 Main St.

Parade at 1 p.m. from St. Francis of Assisi Church.

Warren

Activities begin at 7:45 a.m. at the Warren Town Wharf, Water Street, where participants will conduct the tossing of flowers in the river in memory of service personnel lost at sea. At 8:15 a wreath-laying ceremony will be at town’s war memorial at the Town Common where the Army National Guard will fire three-volley salute followed by the playing of Taps. A parade will form at the Common at 8:30 a.m. and head to North Burial Ground where a salute will be fired and taps will be played before heading to South Burial Ground, where Memorial Day exercises will be held.

West Greenwich

Parade will leave the Coventry/West Greenwich town line on Route 102 at 1:30 p.m. and travel south to the West Greenwich Town Hall for memorial ceremony.

West Warwick

West Warwick Veterans Council will conduct memorial observance at 9:30 a.m. in Memorial Park, 2 Legion Way.

Westerly

Parade will form at 9 a.m. behind the Pawcatuck Shopping Center and proceed at 9:30 down West Broad Street in Pawcatuck, after a short ceremony at the World War I monument at West Broad Street and Pequot Trail. The parade will stop at the Pawcatuck River bridge, where flowers will be cast into the river, and then proceed to Wilcox Park for the main ceremonies.