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Onondaga County Veterans Memorial Cemetery prepares for its Memorial Day ceremony with more than 6,500 flags and a roll call of the dead

Sunday morning at the cemetery on Howlett Hill Road in Syracuse, the county will mark 39 years of public ceremony at a 52-acre burial ground that has carried more than 5,000 veterans into the earth since 1986. The program is free, the parking is tight, and the rule, set by the people who run it, is to say each name aloud as a flag goes into the ground.

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Beaches, breweries and a record 39 million cars: how Central New York actually opens summer this Memorial Day weekend

Onondaga County reopens Jamesville Beach and Oneida Shores at 11 a.m. Saturday after a seven-month winter, Green Lakes in Fayetteville flips its swimming season on the same morning, and AAA expects 39.1 million Americans to drive 50 miles or more between Thursday and Monday. Here is what is actually open, what closes, and where 6,500 flags sit in DeWitt.

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Owasco watch and a restored church: Auburn and Cayuga County open summer 2026 with high stakes on two fronts

From the Thompson A.M.E. Zion Church on Parker Street to the Auburn water intake on the north end of Owasco Lake, the season ahead carries an unusual mix of celebration and vigilance. Cayuga County will measure 2026 by how many tourists it pulls into Harriet Tubman's hometown, and by how few harmful algal blooms slip past the new treatment system at the city's pumping station.