BANGOR – The Memorial Day Parade will begin at 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 30, on Exchange Street. The parade will proceed left on State Street and up Main Street to Davenport Park at the corner of Main and Cedar.

BANGOR – Veterans Helping Veterans will sponsor a fund-raiser SOS Breakfast with creamed beef on toast after the parade at Davenport Park. Admission is by donation, and proceeds will assist the family of Sgt. Harold Gray of Penobscot, a member of the Maine Army National Guard who was injured in Iraq and is hospitalized at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.

BANGOR – The Memorial Day commemoration at Cole Land Transportation Museum will be held at 1 p.m. at 405 Perry Road. The program will include a talk by Tom Stryker, who piloted in Vietnam the helicopter that is mounted on the grounds of the museum, and wreath layings at the Maine World War II Memorial, the Maine Vietnam Memorial and the Maine Purple Heart Memorial. The Hampden Academy Jazz Band will perform in the USO-type show. Band parents will serve food 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. After the program, those attending will be admitted to the museum free.

BANGOR – Memorial Day Mass for area Roman Catholic churches will be held at 8:30 a.m. Monday, May 30, Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Ohio Street. In case of inclement weather, location changed to St. Mary’s, 768 Ohio St.

Sponsored by St. John’s and St. Mary’s in Bangor, St. Joseph’s and St. Teresa’s in Brewer, St. Matthew’s in Hampden and St. Gabriel’s in Winterport.

BREWER – The Isaac E. Clewley Post 4917 Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold Memorial Day ceremonies on Monday, May 30, at these cemeteries: Oak Hill, 10 a.m.; Woodlawn, 11 a.m.; North Brewer, noon. Laying of the wreath, taps, rifle salute, prayer and music by Brewer school students. 843-7583.

CARMEL – Traditional Memorial Day services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, May 30. Veterans, organizations and townspeople are invited to participate. The parade will form at Carmel Elementary School and march to the village cemetery, where American Legion Post 107 members will conduct a ceremony. Guest speaker Tammy Noyes, music by the Hermon High School band. A special service will be held at the town’s Honor Roll monument in the village square. In case of rain, services will be held at the school.

ETNA – Memorial Day services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, May 30. A parade will form at Etna Center on the corner of Routes 143 and 69, and Center Lane. Participants will march to Pleasant Hill Cemetery, where American Legion Post 107 will conduct a ceremony. Music will be provided by the SAD 38 school band. Speaker, Tammy Noyes. Veterans, organizations and townspeople are invited to participate. If the weather is inclement, the service will take place in the Etna school gymnasium.

HAMPDEN – A parade will begin at 9 a.m. May 30 at the VFW Post 4633 Post Home on the Canoe Club Road and proceed to the Locust Grove Cemetery, where services will be held.

ORONO – A Memorial Day parade will be held at 9 a.m. Monday, May 30. The parade will form at 8 a.m. at the Orono High School front and rear parking lots. The parade will proceed down Westwood Drive, turn left onto Main Street and march past the reviewing stand at Swett’s near the bridge sidewalk. Participants will go to the center of the bridge, where members of American Legion Post 84 will conduct a brief wreath ceremony, and continue to Park Street to the American Legion Hall. The parade will end at approximately 11 a.m.

Units in the parade will include the 195th Army Band, University of Maine Police Color Guard, and Army Honor Guard and Color Guard, a bagpiper from Belfast and the Orono High School Band.

The parade will block

Route 2 from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at the intersections of Westwood Drive, Bennoch Road, College Avenue and just beyond the American Legion Hall on Park Street. Motorists are advised to allow extra time to reach their destinations. During the parade, Crossroad Ministries of Old Town will collect nonperishable food for the area food bank. Parade information, Randy Adkins, 866-7103.