Several Connecticut towns and cities are holding ceremonies today in remembrance of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 and to honor those who died and those who risked their lives that day.
Avon
8 a.m. at Avon Volunteer Fire Department Company 1, 25 Darling Drive in Avon.
Danbury
10 a.m. to 6 p.m., 9/11 Never Forget Mobile Exhibit in the front parking lot of The Danbury Fair Mall.
Derby
6:30 p.m., on the Derby Green.
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Greenwich
5 p.m., Cos Cob Park. For more information, visit sept11memorialgreenwich.org.
Middletown
8:30 a.m., Trees of Honor Memorial at Veterans Memorial Park on Walnut Grove Road.
New London
8:30 a.m., at the Historic Ship Nautilus and Submarine Force Museum.
Southington
8:46 a.m. at the 9/11 Memorial in the Plantsville section of Southington, on the corner of Summer and Main streets.
South Windsor
7 p.m. at South Windsor Fire Headquarters, 1175 Ellington Road.
West Haven
6:30 p.m. at the Bradley Point Park flagpole, followed by a candlelight vigil at 7 p.m. at the Richard S. Gabrielle Sept. 11 Memorial on the beach walk next to the Savin Rock Conference Center, 6 Rock St.
There are 161 victims with ties to Connecticut who were killed in the Sept. 11 attacks. The State of Connecticut’s memorial to the victims is on a peninsula at Sherwood Island State Park in Westport, where people gathered on that day. The site was also used in the following days and weeks as a staging area for Connecticut’s relief efforts to New York City.
