Port Chester Police Sgt. Michael Martello, Lt. Charles Nielsen (foreground) and Chief Richard Conway (background) salute after placing the memorial wreath on the Spanish-American War memorial at Summerfield Park on Memorial Day, May 28.
Port Chester High School Band Color Guard members march down Westchester Avenue in the parade following ceremonies at all the war memorials in Port Chester and Rye Brook Monday morning.
Luke Vizzo, 3, of North Main Street tries out a police motorcycle with Port Chester Police Officer Sal Baldo before the parade gets underway. Luke wants to be a police officer when he grows up, said his mom.
Port Chester Fire Chiefs Enrico Casterella, Michael DeVittorio and Herbert Bocchino salute during a ceremony in front of American Legion Post 93 on Pearl Street.
Port Chester and Rye Brook veterans Fred Griffin, Steve Vespia, Marvin Goldowsky, Peter Sileo and Dominick Mancuso applaud during the ceremony at Veterans’ Memorial Park at the corner of Westchester Avenue and North Regent Street.
Ninety-two-year-old World War II veteran Domenic Rutigliano of 370 Westchester Ave. was popular among the elected officials marching in the parade who stopped to shake his hand.
Girl Scouts from various troops march behind the Port Chester/Rye Brook Girl Scouts banner.
Second-grader Dominick Borcerra, decked out as a lion, the King Street School mascot, marches in the parade with his schoolmates.
Standing toward the top of Westchester Avenue, Natan Meiri, 6½, of Rye Brook, waves as the parade passes by.
Anthony Monroy plays trombone in the Port Chester Middle School 6th Grade Band as it marches down the avenue.
Rye Town Councilman Tom Nardi and Korean War veteran Silvio Buccieri place the memorial wreath at the Korean War memorial in Crawford Park as Rye Town Supervisor Gary Zuckerman looks on. In attendance was Patricia DeLuca, sister of Anthony Joseph Cotroneo, whose name is on the memorial plaque at the site. He died at age 19 on Nov. 1, 1951. “I’ll never forget it,” she said.
From left, Port Chester 2nd Assistant Fire Chief Herbert Bocchino, José Gonzalez of the U.S. Marine Corps, a member of Putnam Engine & Hose Company, 1st Assistant Chief Enrico Casterella and Chief Michael DeVittorio salute during a Memorial Day ceremony at the firefighters’ memorial adjacent to fire headquarters on Westchester Avenue.
Barry Albalah of Rye Brook speaks with Patricia DeLuca of Greenwich, whose brother’s name is on the memorial plaque at the Korean War memorial at Crawford Park before the Memorial Day ceremony there. Anthony Joseph Cotroneo died at age 19 on Nov. 1, 1951. “I’ll never forget it,” said DeLuca. Leslee Albalah, at right, admires the well-landscaped memorial.
Edison School fifth grader Eliot Gamboa plays bass drum in the Memorial Day parade as part of the All-Elementary School Band.
