{"id":9650,"date":"2016-09-21T20:30:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T00:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=9650"},"modified":"2016-10-01T20:24:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T00:24:51","slug":"airport-to-use-funding-for-new-taxiway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2016\/09\/21\/airport-to-use-funding-for-new-taxiway\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport To Use Funding For New Taxiway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9651\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2016\/09\/21\/airport-to-use-funding-for-new-taxiway\/ashland_municipal_airport_runway\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Ashland_Municipal_Airport_runway.jpg?fit=220%2C124&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"220,124\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"ashland_municipal_airport_runway\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Ashland_Municipal_Airport_runway.jpg?fit=220%2C124&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Ashland_Municipal_Airport_runway.jpg?resize=220%2C124\" alt=\"ashland_municipal_airport_runway\" width=\"220\" height=\"124\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9651\" \/><br \/>\nAshland Regional Airport officials will use a federal grant totaling more than $3.3 million to construct a new taxiway.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Transportation on Tuesday awarded the Airport Improvement Program funds to the Ashland-Boyd County Airport Board in Worthington.<\/p>\n<p>Airport board chairman David Mansfield says they worked for eight years to secure the funds to relocate the airport taxiway.<\/p>\n<p>He says the project will allow the airport to comply with Federal Aviation Administration safety requirements. Construction is expected to begin in April.<\/p>\n<p>With the funds secured, Mansfield says officials can now focus on expanding the airport to add new terminals and other facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The 63-year-old airport serves general and private aviation. It&#8217;s also a frequent landing spot for business executives and elected officials.<br \/>\nSource:  AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashland Regional Airport officials will use a federal grant totaling more than $3.3 million to construct a new taxiway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":9651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-2vE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-31 01:12:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Ashland_Municipal_Airport_runway.jpg?fit=220%2C124&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9652,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650\/revisions\/9652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}