Unionville Memorial Day Parade to End at Gazebo This Year

It’s a tradition – band students play, Town Council members march and Boy Scouts throw candy as the Memorial Day parade passes through Unionville, over the bridge, through the center and up into the cemetery for speeches, tributes and salutes.

This year, however, the parade will stop short of the cemetery, at the gazebo in Alice Clover Pinney park. The change is being made by the local VFW post for safety, said Farmington Police Lt. William Tyler.

“I fully support their idea; the Lovely Street/Farmington Avenue location was becoming far too dangerous for the number of pedestrians the parade has recently been drawing,” Tyler said.

To keep people away from the busy intersection, the parade will be shortened a little with speeches being given at the gazebo. The route will remain the same.

This year, the Farmington parade will be first. Participants will gather at 8 a.m. and step off at 8:30 a.m. Unionville’s parade will follow at 10:30.