{"id":208424,"date":"2026-07-30T20:23:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=208424"},"modified":"2026-07-30T20:23:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:23:45","slug":"streets-to-close-for-august-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/07\/30\/streets-to-close-for-august-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Streets to close for August events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Portions of downtown Van Wert streets will be temporarily closed for a pair of August events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Main Street Madness 3-on-3 boys and girls basketball tournament will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, August 1.&nbsp;The street closure will be W. Crawford St., to S. Jefferson St. to the bridge by Fountain Park.&nbsp;The rain date will be Sunday, August 2, beginning at 12:30-6 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S. Jefferson St. from Main St. to Central Ave. will be closed for the Van Wert Freedom Cruise from 5-10 p.m. Saturday, August 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information Portions of downtown Van Wert streets will be temporarily closed for a pair of August events. The Main Street Madness 3-on-3 boys and girls basketball tournament will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, August 1.&nbsp;The street closure will be W. Crawford St., to S. Jefferson St. to the bridge by [&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-208424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-08 17:32:17","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\/208424","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=208424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208425,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208424\/revisions\/208425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}