Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. Members of the Gloucester Firefighters Relief Association were placing flags at the gravesites at cemeteries in Gloucester, Essex and Rockport in advance of Memorial Day and Firefighters' Memorial Day. They went to about 14 cemeteries and placed over 120 flags to replace worn ones from the year before. The Firefighter's Memorial Day ceremony will be held at the firefighters memorial at Cherry Hill Cemetery off Washington Street next to Addison Gilbert Hospital at 9 a.m. on Sun. June 9. Here, president Michael Chipperini, right and treasurer Tony Trupiano place flags at graves at Mount Adnah Cemetery in Annisquam.
Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. Members of the Gloucester Firefighters Relief Association were placing flags at the gravesites at cemeteries in Gloucester


They went to about 14 cemeteries and placed over 120 flags to replace worn ones from the year before. The Firefighter's Memorial Day ceremony will be held at the firefighters memorial at Cherry Hill Cemetery off Washington Street next to Addison Gilbert Hospital at 9 a.m. on Sun. June 9. President Michael Chipperini, left, and secretary Tony Trupiano consult the cemetery maps they have gathered to locate the gravesites at the Seaside Cemetery and Locust Grove Cemetery at the Gloucester-Rockport line.
Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. Members of the Gloucester Firefighters Relief Association were placing flags at the gravesites at cemeteries in Gloucester, Rockport and Essex on Monday in advance of Memorial Day and Firefighters Memorial Day. From left, freshening up a marker at Langsford Cemetery with silver spray paint is Michael Chipperini, the president, Dan Kennedy, at right, director, and in the middle, treasurer Tony Trupiano. 
They went to about 14 cemeteries and placed over 120 flags to replace worn ones from the year before. The Firefighter's Memorial Day ceremony will be held at the firefighters memorial at Cherry Hill Cemetery off Washington Street next to Addison Gilbert Hospital at 9 a.m. on Sun. June 9.
Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. Members of the Gloucester Firefighters Relief Association were placing flags at the gravesites at cemeteries in Gloucester, at cemeteries in Gloucester, Essex and Rockport on Monday in preparation for both Memorial Day and the Firefighter's Memorial Day.  They went to about 14 cemeteries and placed over 120 flags to replace worn ones from the year before. The Firefighter's Memorial Day ceremony will be held at the firefighters memorial at Cherry Hill Cemetery off Washington Street next to Addison Gilbert Hospital at 9 a.m. on Sun. June 9. Here, Tony Trupiano, the secretary of the Relief Association, looks at the gravesite of Augustus Lane who died in 1886, who was a firefighter, at Langsford Cemetery.
Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. Members of the Gloucester Firefighters Relief Association were placing flags at the gravesites at cemeteries in Gloucester, Essex and Rockport on Monday in preparation for both Memorial Day and the Firefighter's Memorial Day. From left are president Michael Chipperini, director Dan Kennedy and secretary Tony Trupiano at Seaside Cemetery and Locust Grove Cemetery on the Gloucester-Rockport line on Monday morning. They went to about 14 cemeteries and placed over 120 flags to replace worn ones from the year before. The Firefighter's Memorial Day ceremony will be held at the firefighters memorial at Cherry Hill Cemetery off Washington Street next to Addison Gilbert Hospital at 9 a.m. on Sun. June 9.
Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. Fishing at low tide along the Stacy Boulevard beachfront with Ten Pound Island in the background on Monday.
Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. This is 39 Lepage Lane where a man died after being struck by a vehicle on early Saturday morning.
Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. This is 39 Lepage Lane where a man died after being struck by a vehicle on early Saturday morning.
Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. This is 39 Lepage Lane where a man died after being struck by a vehicle on early Saturday morning.
Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. Members of the Gloucester Firefighters Relief Association were placing flags at the gravesites at cemeteries in Gloucester, Essex and Rockport in advance of Memorial Day and Firefighters' Memorial Day. They went to about 14 cemeteries and placed over 120 flags to replace worn ones from the year before. The Firefighter's Memorial Day ceremony will be held at the firefighters memorial at Cherry Hill Cemetery off Washington Street next to Addison Gilbert Hospital at 9 a.m. on Sun. June 9. Here, president Michael Chipperini, right and treasurer Tony Trupiano place flags at graves at Mount Adnah Cemetery in Annisquam.
Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. Members of the Gloucester Firefighters Relief Association were placing flags at the gravesites at cemeteries in Gloucester, Essex and Rockport in advance of Memorial Day and Firefighters' Memorial Day. They went to about 14 cemeteries and placed over 120 flags to replace worn ones from the year before. The Firefighter's Memorial Day ceremony will be held at the firefighters memorial at Cherry Hill Cemetery off Washington Street next to Addison Gilbert Hospital at 9 a.m. on Sun. June 9. Here, president Michael Chipperini, right and treasurer Tony Trupiano place flags at graves at Mount Adnah Cemetery in Annisquam.
Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. Members of the Gloucester Firefighters Relief Association were placing flags at the gravesites at cemeteries in Gloucester, Essex and Rockport in advance of Memorial Day and Firefighters' Memorial Day. They went to about 14 cemeteries and placed over 120 flags to replace worn ones from the year before. The Firefighter's Memorial Day ceremony will be held at the firefighters memorial at Cherry Hill Cemetery off Washington Street next to Addison Gilbert Hospital at 9 a.m. on Sun. June 9. Here, president Michael Chipperini, right and treasurer Tony Trupiano place flags at graves at Mount Adnah Cemetery in Annisquam.
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