{"id":2303224,"date":"2026-02-27T15:07:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2303224"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:07:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:07:26","slug":"downtown-ferriday-selected-for-750k-grant-for-beautification-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/downtown-ferriday-selected-for-750k-grant-for-beautification-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Ferriday selected for $750K grant for beautification efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\"><span>FERRIDAY, La. \u2014 The Town of Ferriday\u2019s Downtown Entertainment District has been selected to receive a $750,000 Department of Transportation and Development Transportation Alternatives Program grant. <\/span><\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\"><span>The Transportation Alternative Program is a federally funded program administered through DOTD. The goal is to work toward building a more balanced transportation system that includes pedestrians and bicyclists in addition to motor vehicle traffic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\"><span>Eligible projects can include bicycle and pedestrian facilities, safe routes for non-drivers, conversion of abandoned railway corridors to trails, scenic turnouts, overlooks and viewing areas, archaeological activities, storm water mitigation, wildlife management and community improvement activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\"><span>Community improvement activities can include outdoor advertising management, historic preservation and rehabilitation of historic transportation facilities and vegetation management. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.natchezdemocrat.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FERRIDAY, La. \u2014 The Town of Ferriday\u2019s Downtown Entertainment District has been selected to receive a $750,000 Department of Transportation and Development Transportation Alternatives Program grant. The Transportation Alternative Program is a federally funded program administered through DOTD. The goal is to work toward building a more balanced transportation system that includes pedestrians and bicyclists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2303225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[431178,37713,446242],"class_list":["post-2303224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-louisiana-news","tag-newsletter","tag-town-of-ferriday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Downtown-Ferriday-selected-for-750K-grant-for-beautification-efforts.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303226,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303224\/revisions\/2303226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2303225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}