Route For Upcoming Memorial Day Parade Announced- As the 2021 Cheshire Memorial Day Motorcade Parade arrives, the Parade Committee would like to encourage all Cheshire residents along the Parade route to get ready to cheer on the military veterans who will be participating in cars throughout the.
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The identity of a freediving enthusiast who was reported missing in St. Lawrence River on Friday and whose body was found on Sunday has been revealed as 53-year-old Rene Gagnon.
Don Wilkinson
In New Bedford, there is an alley that runs between Pleasant Street and Purchase Street known as Sears Court. The eastern entrance of the alley is bookended by a Family Dollar store and the Greasy Luck bar and restaurant, the western side has a monastery on one side and a police station on the other.
There was never anything particularly memorable about that drab, much-used pedestrian throughway, except the treacherous winter ice and a catwalk above that connects two buildings on either side.
Until now. Up on the catwalk, the words “Sears Court” have been painted to resemble giant refrigerator alphabet magnets.
February 23, 1945, Marines Raise the Flag on Mount Suribachi
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Photos: USMC
On February 23, 1945, World War II was continuing to rage across the globe. In Europe, brutal winter fighting continued as Germany was being squeezed from two sides: in the west by the Americans and British, who had recovered from the German offensive during the Battle of the Bulge, and in the east by the Russians.
In the Pacific, the Japanese were putting up fanatical resistance in the Philippines and elsewhere. And a tiny, just eight-square-mile volcanic speck of an island called Iwo Jima would be the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting of the war.