veterans memorial
Tallgrass Landscape Architecture LLC, of Custer, South Dakota, has completed a feasibility study for the proposed Heritage Park near Pinnacle Bank.
Mike Fridell of Tallgrass presented the study, displaying the park design, maintenance, cost estimations and economic impact, to Newcastle City...
This concept design, created and presented by Tallgrass Landscape Architecture out of Custer, S.D., shows what the veterans memorial may look like at the proposed Heritage Memorial Park, to be located next to Pinnacle Bank in Newcastle.
Veterans Day is a day the U.S. government has officially set aside to specifically honor those who have served in the military during both war and peacetime, but veterans are deserving of our honor and gratitude every day because we enjoy freedom and safety in the United States each day because of...
Courtesy of Tallgrass Landscape Architecture
Matt Fridell of Tallgrass Landscape Architecture, the company steering the project through its early phases, had three preliminary concepts on display for those who attended the Newcastle Farmers’ Market on June 30. Pictured is concept C.
Alexis Barker
NLJ News Editor
A splash pad, concert venue and veterans memorial, oh my!
All of these things and more may be a reality for Newcastle as the steering committee for Heritage Park develops a final concept for a proposed park at eastern gateway. The project is being undertaken through...
Alexis Barker
NLJ News Editor
The city of Newcastle and Pinnacle Bank of Newcastle are partnering with other local individuals to possibly develop the land, just under an acre, to the north of the bank. During the Oct. 18 meeting of the City Council, Mayor Pam Gualtieri reported that she had...
Alexis Barker
NLJ News Editor
Talks with the city of Newcastle over the placement of a proposed veterans memorial by the American Legion have not progressed since City Clerk-Treasurer Greg James reported on Dec. 16 that the organization wanted to use land adjacent to Washington Park for the...
Alexis Barker
NLJ News Editor
Local veteran Duke Ottema continues to work on establishing funds and committees to build a veterans memorial
honoring the community’s past and present veterans, with the help of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the local American Legion.
Duke served three years in...
submitted photo
SP4 Randy L. Schultz, pictured her in '68 or '69 in Vietnam where he spent 10 months with the Army Ordinance Company, courtesy of his family.
By Kim Dean
NLJ Managing Editor
T
he ravages of time grip many things in their path, including people and places. A veterans memorial created in the Cowboy State in the town of Newcastle nearly 50 years ago appears frozen in time.
On top of a hill, within city limits and a stone’s throw from the...
Alexis Barker
NLJ Reporter
The project may be in its infancy stage, but local veteran Duke Ottema, with the help of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the local American Legion, hopes to have a veterans memorial in Newcastle to honor the community’s past and present veterans.
On April 2, Ottema...
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