{"id":188116,"date":"2025-01-03T23:50:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T04:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=188116"},"modified":"2025-01-04T13:19:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T18:19:22","slug":"oath-of-office-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/01\/03\/oath-of-office-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Oath of Office&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"553\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Swearing-in-ceremony-2025-I.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Swearing-in-ceremony-2025-I.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Swearing-in-ceremony-2025-I-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Local public officials and employees were sworn in at the Van Wert County Courthouse Friday morning. Among those taking the oath of office (above): Sheriff Tom Riggenbach, Clerk of Courts Cindy Mollenkopf, Prosecuting Attorney Eva Yarger and Common Pleas Court Judge Martin D. Burchfield, who was sworn in by Probate\/Juvenile Court Judge Kevin H. Taylor. Shown below are Probation Officer Stacy Widmer, Probation Clerk Sydney Abromavich, and Chief Probation Officer Steve Wiechart; County Engineer Kyle Wendel, and Coroner Scott Jarvis. <em>Photos submitted<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"555\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Swearing-in-ceremony-2025-II.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Swearing-in-ceremony-2025-II.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Swearing-in-ceremony-2025-II-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local public officials and employees were sworn in at the Van Wert County Courthouse Friday morning. Among those taking the oath of office (above): Sheriff Tom Riggenbach, Clerk of Courts Cindy Mollenkopf, Prosecuting Attorney Eva Yarger and Common Pleas Court Judge Martin D. Burchfield, who was sworn in by Probate\/Juvenile Court Judge Kevin H. Taylor. [&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-188116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 20:25:08","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\/188116","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=188116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188143,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188116\/revisions\/188143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}