{"id":291553,"date":"2026-09-22T14:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T14:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/291553\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T14:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T14:10:11","slug":"new-philadelphia-to-celebrate-downtown-square-redesign-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/291553\/","title":{"rendered":"New Philadelphia to Celebrate Downtown Square Redesign Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (Sept. 22, 2026) \u2013\u00a0 New Philadelphia will celebrate the completion of a year-long downtown improvement project tomorrow with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on the Downtown Square.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony is set for 1 p.m. Wednesday and marks the completion of the $2.9-million redesign of the downtown quadrants. The project was funded through Governor Mike DeWine\u2019s Appalachian Community Grant Program.<\/p>\n<p>The public is invited to attend the free ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration will continue Saturday, when NPact and downtown businesses host \u201cMeet Me Downtown,\u201d beginning at noon. The grand reopening will feature vendors, live music, fall-themed storefronts and scarecrow decorations, along with activities for children.<\/p>\n<p>The event also will feature \u201cScarecrows on the Square.\u201d Individuals, families, schools, youth groups, businesses and community organizations can enter a family-friendly scarecrow for a $25 donation benefiting the NPact Events Fund. Registration is due today, with judging Friday evening and the People\u2019s Choice winner announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"qt-item-metas\">\n\t\t\tWritten by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjer.com\/news\/author\/hambachj\/\" class=\"qt-authorname\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (Sept. 22, 2026) \u2013\u00a0 New Philadelphia will celebrate the completion of a year-long downtown improvement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-291553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}