{"id":195431,"date":"2025-07-31T21:18:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T02:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=195431"},"modified":"2025-07-31T21:18:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T02:18:49","slug":"van-wert-street-closures-announced-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/07\/31\/van-wert-street-closures-announced-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert street closures announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following street closures are planned for downtown Van Wert this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Historic Main Street Block Party and Car Show<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This event will be held at Fountain Park from 4-10 p.m. Friday, August 8.\u00a0The street closure will start at 12 p.m. for S. Jefferson St., from W. Main St., to Town Creek and W. Central Ave., from S. Jefferson St., to S. Washington St.\u00a0 Also, starting at 2 p.m., W. Main St., from N. Shannon St., to S. Washington St., and N. Jefferson St., from W. Main St., to W. Jackson St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Historic Main Street\u2019s Madness 3 on 3 basketball tournament<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 This event will be held on S. Jefferson St., by the Goedde Building from 9 a.m. to 4 or 5 p.m. Saturday, August 9. The street closure will be S. Jefferson St., from W. Main St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Van Wert Freedom Cruise<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This event will be held from 4-10 p.m. Saturday, August 9. The street closure will be S. Jefferson St. from Main St. to Central Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tri County ADAMHS Board\u2019s Hope Walk (suicide and overdose awareness)<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 This event will be held in Fountain Park from 2-5 p.m. Sunday, August 31.&nbsp; The street closure will be Jefferson St., from Main St., to Central Ave., with Central Avenue\u2019s intersection to remain open to S. Crawford St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information The following street closures are planned for downtown Van Wert this month. Historic Main Street Block Party and Car Show\u00a0\u2013 This event will be held at Fountain Park from 4-10 p.m. Friday, August 8.\u00a0The street closure will start at 12 p.m. for S. Jefferson St., from W. Main St., to Town [&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-195431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 01:24:25","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\/195431","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=195431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195437,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195431\/revisions\/195437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}