Celebrations & Observances

November is National Native American Heritage Month, a time to honor the rich histories, cultures, and enduring contributions of Native Americans.

Saugus Union School District sites will be closed on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, in observance of Veterans Day.

Each year, on September 17 (to commemorate the date that thirty-nine delegates signed and submitted to the states for ratification the document that has become the standard for the democracy of the United States of America), Americans celebrate U.S. Constitution and Citizenship Day.

National Hispanic Heritage Month celebrates the achievements, history, traditions, and cultural diversity of the nation’s Hispanic/Latino/Latinx Americans.

Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year. It’s celebrated as the “birthday of the world.”

As the president of the United States said in his proclamation, “A quarter of a century has passed since the terrible day of September 11, 2001, and an entire generation of Americans has now come of age with no living memory of that fateful day.

On July 4, 1776, delegates to the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.