OLD LYME — It may have been a damp afternoon but spirits were still high as Old Lyme’s Police, Fire and Emergency Service vehicles formed into a parade at Lyme-Old Lyme High School and then wound a route through the town. As one reader wrote, “The sound was deafening,” and another sent us a video to prove just how noisy (in a good way!) it all was.
Horns were blaring, sirens were sounding and all the crowds gathered along the route were cheering.
The event gave an opportunity for reciprocal thanks from the community to the public and emergency service members for their support and vice versa. and from those latter to the community for all their support.
Old Lyme residents were out in force variously holding homemade signs of thanks, clapping and waving as the parade went by, and to quote Suzanne Thompson, who lives in Beach Farms, “Some tears were shed.”
Residents cheered enthusiastically when the emergency vehicles and fire-trucks came by on Shore Rd.
Thompson added enthusiastically, “[I’m] so glad they came by our neighborhood!”
Watching the parade at the intersection of Sill Lane and Saunders Hollow Rd. (see photo below) were the McGlinchey family, from left to right, Tracy, Griffin, Carter and Brynn.
THANK YOU !