{"id":1442390,"date":"2025-09-15T16:06:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1442390"},"modified":"2025-09-17T05:51:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T10:51:37","slug":"u-s-highway-69-in-smith-county-to-be-renamed-to-honor-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1442390","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Highway 69 in Smith County to be renamed to honor veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/CITYOFTYLER1-1-e1756398210972-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1429031\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/CITYOFTYLER1-1-e1756398210972-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/CITYOFTYLER1-1-e1756398210972-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/CITYOFTYLER1-1-e1756398210972.jpg 739w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>TYLER \u2013 A portion of U.S. Highway 69 in Smith County will be renamed Veterans Memorial Highway to honor and serve as a lasting tribute to those who served in the United States Armed Forces, according to a report from our news partner KETK.<\/p>\n<p>A press conference will be held on Sept. 19 by the Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce Veterans Committee to formally announce the designation of the Veterans Memorial Highway. The press conference will be held at First Christian Church starting at 12 p.m. Veterans and their families are encouraged to attend the press conference and participate in the dedicated photo opportunity following the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis highway designation is a lasting tribute to the courage and sacrifice of our Veterans,\u201d co-chair of the Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce Veterans Committee Jackie Clay-Robertson said. \u201cWe are honored to see this vision become reality with the help of our local and state leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 A portion of U.S. Highway 69 in Smith County will be renamed Veterans Memorial Highway to honor and serve as a lasting tribute to those who served in the United States Armed Forces, according to a report from our news partner KETK. A press conference will be held on Sept. 19 by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1442390\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. Highway 69 in Smith County to be renamed to honor veterans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1429031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/CITYOFTYLER1-1-e1756398210972-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1442390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 23:45:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/CITYOFTYLER1-1-e1756398210972-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1442390"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442686,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442390\/revisions\/1442686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1429031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1442390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1442390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1442390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}