Deputy Presiding Officer of Suffolk County Legislature Steven J. Flotteron recognized West Babylon’s Kerry Rudden as this year’s Suffolk County 1916 Easter Rising Memorial Scholarship recipient. She was presented with a $1,500 check during the Annual Wreath Laying and Remembrance at the Easter Rising Centennial Memorial located at the Cohalan Court Complex in Central Islip.
A coalition of Irish American groups in Suffolk County joined in a campaign to raise funds for a memorial to the 1916 Easter Rising. Members of the local chapter of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Emerald Societies of the Suffolk County Police and Fire Departments and the Gerry Tobin Irish Language School erected the memorial behind the Peter Cohalan Court complex in 2016.