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An M60 Patton battle tank sits on the grounds of the Archbald Borough Veterans Monument Park in Archbald Friday, May 1, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<\/p>\n
\u201cOur park is about 50% complete,\u201d Turlip told commissioners April 15. \u201cIt\u2019s coming along very nicely. We\u2019re going to start construction again here soon with the weather cooperating in our favor. Hopefully we\u2019re going to have this park complete by September and have a nice ceremony.\u201d<\/p>\n
Work to this point has included the installation of a 12-foot-tall black granite obelisk topped with a bronze bald eagle and flanked by smaller black granite markers commemorating each branch of the U.S. armed forces. The marker commemorating the Air Force had to be reordered due to a blemish but has since been installed.<\/p>\n
The monument and markers complement an M163 Vulcan Air Defense System, an M60 Patton tank and a large wooden pavilion erected at the park last year. The park will also feature prominent veterans walls adorned with granite tile plaques honoring hundreds of individual veterans, multiple bronze statues made through partnerships with Keystone College and later Marywood University, granite benches, a mural, additional pieces of decommissioned military equipment and other features.<\/p>\n
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Archbald Borough Veterans Monument Park in Archbald Friday, May 1, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<\/p>\n
Turlip told commissioners that granite veterans plaques remain available for $550, noting plans to ultimately install 420 in total. Individuals looking to honor specific veterans with a plaque can call Turlip at 570-877-2338.<\/p>\n
He also said the committee recently started seeking funding for a statue honoring women veterans. Marywood professor of sculpture Stephen Colley, who sculpted and cast other statues for the park with his students at Keystone and later Marywood, will also complete the statue featuring a Vietnam-era nurse providing aid to a wounded soldier.<\/p>\n
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A miniature mock-up of a planned statue honoring female veterans that will be cast in bronze and displayed at the Archbald Borough Veterans Monument Park. (COURTESY OF ROB TURLIP)<\/p>\n
Other Colley-cast statues that will be added to the park include a soldier kneeling with a K-9; the soldier\u2019s battle cross, which is a rifle, combat boots and a helmet; and the \u201cNo Man Left Behind,\u201d which depicts a soldier rescuing a pilot. The goal is for those pieces to be installed this year, Turlip said, noting the statue honoring women veterans will likely be installed sometime next year.<\/p>\n
Plans to add a Black Hawk helicopter to the park fell through, but Turlip said the site will ultimately feature a Quad .50 \u2014 another anti-aircraft weapon which takes its name from its four .50-caliber machine guns \u2014 and hopefully one additional piece of military equipment.<\/p>\n
The finished park will also include a parking lot, lighting, additional landscaping and other features.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a 10-year project,\u201d Turlip said in a recent phone interview. \u201cI\u2019ll be happy when it\u2019s finished. I think it\u2019s going to be beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Monday Update<\/p>\n
Then: 2025 featured major progress at an Archbald veterans park planned since 2016.<\/p>\n
Now: Park work will soon resume with completion targeted for later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Construction of the Archbald Borough Veterans Monument Park on Kennedy Drive will soon resume in earnest with completion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2117,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-183254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-archbald","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}