The Westhampton Beach St. Patrick’s Day Parade is proud to announce the 2025 Parade Grand Marshal is Steve Frano.

Steve, posing gracefully in the red hat with some of the Committee’s past Grand Marshals, will be the 57th Grand Marshal to lead our Parade since 1968. He is a lifelong WHB resident and graduate of WHB Schools as well as a Westhampton Beach Fire Department member for 50 years and former chief of the Fire Department. He is a former member of the Westhampton War Memorial Ambulance who had to retire to help take care of his son. Steve was the Fire Marshal for Southampton Town for 40 years and was elected to serve as a Village Trustee four times for eight years by the community here in Westhampton Beach. He is a former Little League coach and past president of the East End Little League. He was also a Suffolk County Coordinator of Fire Departments and also volunteered to teach for fire safety at WHB Schools for many years. He played Santa for many years at local holiday events and has been an incredibly important member of the Westhampton St. Pat’s Parade Committee.

Keeping with his long career of volunteering for the greater WHB community, Steve has selected his Parade Theme to be one of volunteerism: “Is there a volunteer within you?”

The Parade will be held on Saturday, March 15th this year with our annual fundraiser to be held at the Westhampton Brewery on Saturday, March 8th.