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Plans Announced For Springfield's September 11th Remembrance

Paul Tuthill
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WAMC
The September 11th memorial in Springfield, Massachusetts is located in Riverfront Park. Since 2019 it has been the site of the city's annual remembrance ceremony.

Ceremony will be held on the eve of the 20th anniversary

The first responders who died on 9/11 will be honored again during an annual observance in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Because it is the 20th anniversary of that fateful day, there are some changes to the remembrance ceremony.

For one, it will take place on the evening of September 10th

WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Judy Matt, president of Spirit of Springfield, the nonprofit that has directed the observance for the last 18 years.

Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.