The annual Purcell Memorial Day service at Hillside Cemetery was moved into the Multi-Purpose Building Monday due to wet conditions at the cemetery. From left are featured speaker Sgt. Keith Williams, emcee and event coordinator Jay Tate and Rev. Justin Blankenship who gave the invocation and the closing prayer.

In a brief Memorial Day service at Lexington Police Department Monday, Police Chief Ronnie Johnson, right, awarded the Medal of Valor to three Lexington Police Department heroes and had officers hang plaques in their honor on the wall of honor. Honored were Marshall Henry Simmons who was killed in a shootout in 1889, Eugene Scott, who was killed at the Purcell train depot in 1875 and Leroy Schaefer who was a dispatch supervisor who contacted COVID 19 while on duty and died from the disease in January 2021. Pictured with Johnson is Jessie Dougherty.