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Reminder: St. James, Smithtown Christmas Parades Set for Saturday

Both parades begin at 5 p.m.

Firetrucks, Santa Clause, some elves and a bunch of firefighters are set to invade your neighborhood with the 32nd Annual St. James Fire District Christmas & Holiday Parade and 33rd Annual Smithtown Fire Department Christmas Parade.

Both parades begin at 5 p.m.

For St. James, the parade will begin at Station One, located at Lake Avenue and North Country Road, and will have two breaks where it will stop to entertain locals: SJFD Station Two, located at located at 221 Jefferson Ave., at approximately 6:20 p.m., and Mills Pond Elementary School at roughly 7:15 p.m.

Get the full St. James parade route here.

The Smithtown parade will begin on Elm Avenue and there will be three long stops: first at Redwood Lane near the beginning of the parade, followed by a stop at Meat Farms and lastly close to the middle of the route on Central Road at Smithtown High School West.

Get the full Smithtown parade route here.

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KFM May 21, 2013 at 04:17 pm
How, in a period of rapidly declining enrollment, can costs be increasing so much from year to year,Read More you ask? The answer is in front of you in black and white. I urge you to READ your district’s budget: we are funding retirements when many of us cannot afford to fund our own during difficult economic times. These wheels were set in motion by contracts negotiated in times of unrealistic growth that may likely not occur again. It is time to open up these plans and relieve this unfair burden from our shoulders. Whatever other measures are pursued in order to control costs, including consolidation within and eventually with other districts, are never going to be enough if you cannot get this problem corrected. Write your congressman, for the love of God. If you need any more incentive to do so, please go to http://rocdocs.democratandchronicle.com/database/teacher-pensions-new-york and look at what Smithtown’s retirees are collecting MONTHLY. It will sicken you.
KFM May 21, 2013 at 04:12 pm
They are allowed to exclude the pension and employee benefit increases when expressing the increase.Read More
Billie B May 20, 2013 at 10:17 am
Tomorrow is the vote..vote NO NOW or our taxes are going to continue to sky rocket. Unless we doRead More something this town will continue to spiral down. More taxes aren't going to help. We need to cut expenses and get ourselves on a fiscally responsible plan.