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Grand marshals honored at breakfast

| 09 Mar 2015 | 03:41
    Brianna Ryan of Vernon is shown serving a traditional Irish breakfast that includes (Irish sausages), rashers (Irish bacon), eggs, potatoes, beans, black pudding, white pudding, tomato, and brown bread.
    Brianna Ryan of Vernon is shown serving a traditional Irish breakfast that includes (Irish sausages), rashers (Irish bacon), eggs, potatoes, beans, black pudding, white pudding, tomato, and brown bread.
    As her sons Grant and Logan fool around, Assemblywoman Alison McHose sits with her husband Morgan at The Irish Cottage Inn.
    As her sons Grant and Logan fool around, Assemblywoman Alison McHose sits with her husband Morgan at The Irish Cottage Inn.
    At center, state Sen. Steve Oroho speaks with Grand Marshals Dennis and Mary Harrington in the front room at The Irish Cottage Inn in Franklin on Saturday.
    At center, state Sen. Steve Oroho speaks with Grand Marshals Dennis and Mary Harrington in the front room at The Irish Cottage Inn in Franklin on Saturday.
    Wearing green is one very tall and oversized leprechaun Mike Donahue of Stanhope. He was born in County Cork in Ireland.
    Wearing green is one very tall and oversized leprechaun Mike Donahue of Stanhope. He was born in County Cork in Ireland.
    Grand Marshals of the upcoming Newton St. PatrickþÄôs Day Parade are from the left Dennis and Mary Harrington shown with state Sen. Steve Oroho during the Grand MarshalsþÄô Breakfast held at The Irish Cottage Inn in Franklin on Saturday.
    Grand Marshals of the upcoming Newton St. PatrickþÄôs Day Parade are from the left Dennis and Mary Harrington shown with state Sen. Steve Oroho during the Grand MarshalsþÄô Breakfast held at The Irish Cottage Inn in Franklin on Saturday.

FRANKLIN — This year’s 12th Annual Sussex County St. Patrick's Day Parade in Newton started gearing up Saturday with a breakfast honoring grand marshals Dennis and Mary Harrington, a pair of longtime Franklin residents, at Franklin's Irish Cottage Inn on Route 23.

The parade will be held Saturday, March 21. There are more than 100 units marching in the parade. According to a press release, the parade will step off at 11:30 a.m. from Spring Street near Stuart Street; proceeding up Spring Street, then turning right onto Moran Street to Memory Park where it will disband. Spring Street will be closed at 11 a.m. from Union Place to Moran Street. Parade units will stage starting at 9 a.m. in the lot located between the Moose Lodge and Camp Iliff on Spring Street.

For more information about the parade and related activities, please visit their website at: http://sussexcountynjirish.com/ or call Pat Fitzgibbons, chairman, at (973) 827-6707.

— Photos by Chris Wyman