{"id":205714,"date":"2026-05-10T20:48:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=205714"},"modified":"2026-05-11T05:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:24:07","slug":"high-school-seniors-set-to-graduate-starting-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/05\/10\/high-school-seniors-set-to-graduate-starting-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"High school seniors set to graduate starting Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lincolnview-cap-toss-2025-e1778418634137.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-192940\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lincolnview&#8217;s graduation ceremony will be among the first around the area. <em>Van Wert independent file photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The month of May brings with it  commencement ceremonies at school districts throughout Ohio, with diplomas being passed out to high school seniors with family, friends and others in attendance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Locally, this year\u2019s first graduation ceremony will take place this Saturday morning, May 16, at Delphos Jefferson. The area\u2019s final graduation ceremonies are scheduled for Sunday, May 24, at Van Wert, Spencerville and Wayne Trace. Here is the schedule for area schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Saturday, May 16 \u2013 Delphos Jefferson (9 a.m.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sunday, May 17 \u2013 Parkway (1:30 p.m.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sunday, May 17 \u2013 Lincolnview (2 p.m.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sunday, May 17 \u2013 Delphos St. John\u2019s (3 p.m.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Saturday, May 23 \u2013 Crestview (6 p.m.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sunday, May 24 \u2013 Van Wert (2 p.m.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sunday, May 24 \u2013 Spencerville ( 2 p.m.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sunday, May 24 \u2013 Wayne Trace ( 2:30 p.m.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Seniors at Vantage Career Center will receive their diplomas at their home school, but will be honored during the annual Senior Awards program at 7 p.m. Monday, May 18, in the Van Wert High School gymnasium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff The month of May brings with it commencement ceremonies at school districts throughout Ohio, with diplomas being passed out to high school seniors with family, friends and others in attendance. Locally, this year\u2019s first graduation ceremony will take place this Saturday morning, May 16, at Delphos Jefferson. The area\u2019s final graduation ceremonies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-topstory"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-18 05:33:04","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\/205714","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=205714"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205730,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205714\/revisions\/205730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}