Wauwatosa will observe Memorial Day in a ceremony at 9 a.m. May 25 at Hart Park's Muellner Building, and the observance comes less than a week after the Wauwatosa Common Council voted overwhelmingly to approve a new site for a long-planned Wauwatosa Veterans Memorial.
The Veterans Memorial was to be installed in a portion of the grassy area just east of Hart Park's football stadium, but last August's flooding forced the volunteer committee behind those plans to search for an alternate location.
The location they found is on the north side of Tosa Village, on a city-owned triangle of vacant land on the southwest corner of Milwaukee and Harwood avenues, once home to Wauwatosa's first public library.
On May 19, the Common Council voted, 8-1, in favor of offering that land for the Wauwatosa Veterans Memorial, which could break ground soon and be ready for an official unveiling by Veterans Day in November.