{"id":207508,"date":"2026-07-01T20:27:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=207508"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:28:09","slug":"new-business-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/07\/01\/new-business-3\/","title":{"rendered":"New business&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"368\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Main-Walnut-ribbon-cutting-6-2026-e1782935329743.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-207509\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Chris and Amy Covey cut the ribbon on their new business, Walnut and Main Event Space, during a ceremony and open house held on Tuesday. The venue, aptly named for its location \u2013 Main St. and Walnut St. in Van Wert is available to host large events. The Coveys own The Warehouse on N. Washington St., which will continue to operate. The building that houses Walnut and Main dates back many years and was an automobile dealership for over 50 years, then became home to a pair of other businesses. Many of the building\u2019s historic features have been preserved. <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris and Amy Covey cut the ribbon on their new business, Walnut and Main Event Space, during a ceremony and open house held on Tuesday. The venue, aptly named for its location \u2013 Main St. and Walnut St. in Van Wert is available to host large events. The Coveys own The Warehouse on N. Washington [&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-207508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-09 04:10:07","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\/207508","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=207508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207510,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207508\/revisions\/207510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}