{"id":210745,"date":"2026-09-30T21:57:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=210745"},"modified":"2026-09-30T21:57:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:57:32","slug":"new-delphos-mayor-takes-oath-of-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/09\/30\/new-delphos-mayor-takes-oath-of-office\/","title":{"rendered":"New Delphos mayor takes oath of office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DELPHOS &#8212; A new mayor has been selected in Delphos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a press release issued by the city, Doug Mullenhour will take over for Andre McConnahea, who stepped down September 4 to focus on his family\u2019s small business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mullenhour, who was sworn in by acting Mayor Mark Clement Wednesday morning, was the city\u2019s mayor from 2020-2024. He planned to seek re-election but his nominating petitions were ruled invalid by the Board of Elections Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mullenhour\u2019s term will expire at the end of 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff DELPHOS &#8212; A new mayor has been selected in Delphos. According to a press release issued by the city, Doug Mullenhour will take over for Andre McConnahea, who stepped down September 4 to focus on his family\u2019s small business. Mullenhour, who was sworn in by acting Mayor Mark Clement Wednesday morning, was [&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-210745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-08 17:35:45","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\/210745","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=210745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210746,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210745\/revisions\/210746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}