At 10 a.m. this morning, Monday, May 26, the in a ceremony on the courthouse lawn, 200 W. Walker St. in Breckenridge, members of the local Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7767 and Auxiliary, along with Stephens County residents, will pay their respects to those Stephens County veterans who have died in the past year.
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Retired U.S. Navy veteran Jim Merson and Les Strickland, the Stephens County Veterans Service Officer and a retired U.S. Marine, will be at the cemetery at 8 a.m. Saturday, May 24, to put out the flags for Memorial Day.

Volunteers are needed next Saturday, May 25, to help place American flags on the graves of U.S. Military veterans buried in the Breckenridge Cemetery.

The project is a semi-annual procedure to clean the cemetery in preparation for the grass and flower season.

The annual Memorial Day Ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. Monday, May 29, on the Stephens County Courthouse lawn.

They will get started at 8 a.m. Saturday, May 27, in the Breckenridge Cemetery.

A large group of volunteers showed up for the Memorial Day project.

The City of Breckenridge cemetery personnel will begin cleaning the Breckenridge Cemetery on Monday, Feb. 7. The project is a semi-annual procedure to clean the cemetery in preparation for the grass and flower season.

The Memorial Day weekend started off locally with a group of volunteers placing flags on veterans’ graves in the Breckenridge

City of Breckenridge employees will begin its semi-annual cleaning the Breckenridge Cemetery on Monday, Feb. 1, in preparation for the