The names of Keene residents who have served in conflicts dating back to the Revolutionary War are read at the May 2019 Memorial Day ceremony at the Norton veterans memorial site. (Enterprise photo— Elizabeth Izzo)

Memorial Day services will take place in person in five local communities on Monday. Saranac Lake and Lake Placid will skip their traditional parades for the second year in a row, but Long Lake will have a parade despite the coronavirus pandemic, which is fading as more people are vaccinated.

Lake Placid’s American Legion Post 326 will not host its parade down Main Street from Saranac Avenue to the Legion’s building at School Street. Last year, the pandemic shut down all local Memorial Day events, and this year, the pandemic and Main Street construction are preventing the parade, according to Legion Commander Stuart Spotts and Legion Board of Directors President and Historian Bill Morris.

The usual flag ceremonies will be held, with flags lowered and raised for local deceased veterans at four locations around Lake Placid.

Flags will be lowered and raised as follows: 9:30 a.m., Adirondack Community Church, lowered for Richard “Dick” Smart and raised for Cyril Levitt; 9:50 a.m., Elderwood of Uihlein at Lake Placid, lowered for Harry Jacobs and raised for Lawrence Maxwell; and 10:10 a.m., Lake Placid Health and Medical Fitness Center, lowered for Henry “Hank” Cooney and raised for William “Bill” McCalvin.

People will gather outside the Legion building at 11 a.m. for a flag ceremony. Flags will be lowered for Ken Hare, Ray Levitt and Guy Wescott and raised for John “Jack” Kendrick, Neil Pratt and Norris Earl “Bucky” Seney.

Saranac Lake’s Veterans Memorial Association, consisting of the local American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars chapters, will have a simple ceremony at 11 a.m. in Riverside Park, at the corner of Main and River streets, but will also forego its parade, as well as its traditional public luncheon after the service. Members are welcome to go to the club afterward, but not the general public this year.

Tupper Lake’s service will be as it usually is, at 11 a.m. at the veterans monument on Park Street next to State Theater, with the laying of wreaths and a color guard. Sgt. First Class Mike Fouse will speak.

Long Lake will have a Memorial Day parade, but first there will be a wreath-laying ceremony on the bridge at at 8:30 a.m. The parade begins at 9 a.m. at the town hall, marching marches to the cemetery.

Keene’s Memorial Day ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. at the veterans memorial site on Norton Cemetery Road. It is being conducted by American Legion Marcy Post 1312 with an honor guard, firing squad, patriotic music and the playing of “Echo Taps.” Names of all the Keene residents who served since the Revolutionary War will be read during the ceremony.