Essex County Clerk Joseph Provoncha (left) reads the invocation Tuesday as members of the County Board of Supervisors gather outside the county complex for a day-after-Memorial Day ceremony. From left are Supervisors Joyce Morency, Robert C. Dedrick, David Blades, Randy Douglas and William Ferebee. The supervisors were attending a Ways and Means meeting in Elizabethtown.

(Staff Photo/Lohr McKinstry)