{"id":183813,"date":"2024-09-18T21:02:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T02:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=183813"},"modified":"2024-09-18T21:03:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T02:03:02","slug":"grant-funds-to-benefit-sheriffs-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/09\/18\/grant-funds-to-benefit-sheriffs-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant funds to benefit Sheriff&#8217;s Office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Sheriff-Riggenbach-copy.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-170277\"\/><figcaption>Sheriff Riggenbach<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert County Sheriff Thomas M. Riggenbach has announced that the Ohio Traffic Safety Office has awarded the county $47,708.06 in federal traffic safety funding for fiscal year 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheriff Riggenbach said the grant funds will help provide additional personnel time to focus on making the roadways safer for visitors and residents of Van Wert County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Van Wert County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is aware that reckless drivers are impacting the safety of the residents of Van Wert County,\u201d Riggenbach said in a Facebook post. \u201cTo help save lives and make our roadways safer, the Van Wert County Sheriff&#8217;s Office will use the grant funds to focus on areas of serious crashes, traffic-related fatal crashes, alcohol-related crashes, and distracted driving\/inattention on the major highways and local roadways in Van Wert County.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the fourth year the Van Wert County Sheriff&#8217;s Office has received funds through OTSO for traffic enforcement efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information Van Wert County Sheriff Thomas M. Riggenbach has announced that the Ohio Traffic Safety Office has awarded the county $47,708.06 in federal traffic safety funding for fiscal year 2025. Sheriff Riggenbach said the grant funds will help provide additional personnel time to focus on making the roadways safer for visitors and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 09:46:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183818,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183813\/revisions\/183818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}