The City of Taylorsville and Taylorsville Youth Council hosted Wreaths Across America Day on Dec. 13, 2025, for the fourth time, following the previous years' highly successful events. You can still sponsor a wreath for this coming year by clicking the button above.

The nationwide initiative honors veterans across the country, coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery, as well as more than 3,400 additional locations in all 50 states, at sea and abroad.

Those ceremonies are held each December on National Wreaths Across America Day. In Taylorsville, there were two parts to the ceremony in December. The first part in the City Council Chambers started promptly at 10 a.m. to coincide with the ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. (Following is the livestream of that 2025 ceremony, and see videos from previous years of the event below).

The second portion of the ceremony took place outdoors at the Taylorsville City Cemetery, where wreaths were laid on all 281 veterans' graves there. In addition to assistance from the Taylorsville Youth Council, the Taylorsville High School JROTC and the local nonprofit Honor365, community members were also invited to help lay the wreaths. 

“We are so honored to participate in this moving initiative honoring veterans and thank all those who have sponsored a remembrance wreath,” said Mayor Kristie Overson. “The ceremony has become a highlight of the holidays."

The remembrance wreaths are hand-crafted of all-American balsam and hand-tied with a red velvet bow in Columbia Falls, Maine, and then sent to participating locations. The wreaths are $17 each to sponsor.

The Taylorsville Youth Council chose the Wreaths Across America initiative as its holiday service project. For more information about Wreaths Across America and Honor365, please visit wreathsacrossamerica.org and honor365.org.