Supporters ask Weston County to back traveling Vietnam War Memorial; commissioners to place resolution on next agenda

Kathy Decker Levasseur, a Newcastle resident who is coordinating a local effort, presented plans on Dec. 2 for a traveling Vietnam War Memorial and asked the Weston County Board of Commissioners for a board signature on a resolution to support the project and help with grant submission.

Decker Levasseur described the memorial as a traveling exhibit with educational programming and said it would require a roughly three‑acre, flat site and an upfront grant fee (she cited a $3,000 upfront cost for grant submission). She noted local ties to the national wall — naming two local service members whose names appear on the national memorial — and said organizers plan a permanent memorial library of veterans’ stories in conjunction with the traveling wall.

Commissioners asked about timing and whether the county could provide signatures. Decker Levasseur said she expected an engineering review within about a year but asked for the board’s support for a grant application. Commissioners agreed to add the resolution to the agenda in two weeks and to provide the requested signatures; no formal vote on funding was taken during the meeting.

The board’s placement of the resolution on the next agenda is procedural support for the grant application; any future county financial commitment would be considered separately.