A ceremony is being held in New Milford this morning at the town's 9/11 memorial along Patriot's Way. The service will start at 8:46am, the time the first plane hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Participants can start to gather at 8am. Water Witch Hose Company No. 2 will toll a bell and then the American Flag will be raised. Local lawmakers will deliver remarks after a performance of the Star Spangled Banner and an invocation.
A remembrance ceremony is being held once again this morning by Howard Lasher at his Dodgingtown Road home where an American Flag mural was painted on 6 maple trees by artist David Merrill. It's a tribute to nine associates from the American Stock Exchange, and the son of a colleague who worked at Cantor Fitzgerald who all lost their lives on 9/11.
The Brookfield High School Student Council is hosting a candlelight vigil tonight in front of town hall. Candles will be available at the public event which starts at 6pm.
The ceremony in Danbury will be held once again at the City's 9/11 monument on Main Street at Elmwood Park. The glass tower sits on a pentagon of granite and has the names of victims with Connecticut ties etched into it. The ceremony is at 6pm.
Ridgefield is holding it's annual memorial ceremony at 6:30 pm at the monument on Danbury Road. The tribute features a steel beam recovered from the World Trade Center site. The Port Authority made beams available to towns that were developing public commemorative monuments.
Bethel's annual tradition of a procession from the South Street firehouse to the municipal center will step down South Street at 6:50pm. The Bethel Volunteer Fire Department leads the remembrance event with a ceremony following at approximately 7pm on the lawn of the Municipal Center.
The Redding Pilot reports that a print of Hugh Seward Hirtle's portrait entitled "They Answered The Call" will be on display in Town Hall throughout the day. There will be a vase of white roses beneath it. The artist photographed 13 volunteer firefighters and emergency personnel who helped at Ground Zero and then painted it as an oil portrait. The original is located at the Redding Community Center.
