{"id":829762,"date":"2026-07-27T19:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/829762\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T19:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:05:17","slug":"province-announces-9-million-in-municipal-capital-works-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/829762\/","title":{"rendered":"Province Announces $9 Million in Municipal Capital Works Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/paul-connors-steve-ryan-and-barry-petten.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Province Announces $9 Million in Municipal Capital Works Funding\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Avalon MP Paul Connors, St. Mary&#8217;s Mayor Steve Ryan and Transportation Minister Barry Petten (Government of NL)<\/p>\n<p>Some nine million dollars in municipal capital works funding for communities throughout the province was announced this morning in St. Mary\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Provincial Transportation Minister Barry Petten, area MP Paul Connors and St. Mary\u2019s Mayor Steve Ryan were on-hand for today\u2019s event. <\/p>\n<p>Minister Petten says $656,000 has been set aside for culvert replacement in the St. Mary\u2019s area. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very important, because a lot of the culverts are deteriorating and of course you can\u2019t put new asphalt down, (until) what\u2019s under the road (is) taken care of, it is very important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Minister Petten says more funding is coming, with more announcements anticipated in the not too distant future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Avalon MP Paul Connors, St. Mary&#8217;s Mayor Steve Ryan and Transportation Minister Barry Petten (Government of NL)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,269876,44,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-829762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}