{"id":145585,"date":"2011-11-30T14:38:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T20:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=145585"},"modified":"2011-12-02T02:22:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T08:22:05","slug":"longview-christmas-parade-route-and-related-road-closures-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=145585","title":{"rendered":"Longview Christmas Parade Route and Related Road Closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=145572\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-145572\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/11\/christmas-tree.1293039950-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"christmas tree.1293039950\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-145572\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLONGVIEW \u2014 The annual Longview Christmas Parade will take place at 6:30 this evening. Several downtown streets will be closed to vehicle traffic beginning at 5:30 p.m. Barricades will be placed around an approximate eight-block staging area east of Gregg County Court House and the 300 block of E. Methvin Street. Access to the outdoor drive-through locations of Texas Bank and Trust will be permitted until 6 p.m. Drivers should use extra caution when driving near the parade route and staging area. Most downtown streets should re-open later that night.<\/p>\n<p>To accommodate ongoing downtown Christmas at the Courthouse activities, some downtown streets will remain closed following the parade. Southbound Fredonia Street from Whaley to Methvin will be closed now through 5:00 p.m., Monday, December 12. In addition, all of Fredonia Street between Whaley and Methvin will be closed Friday and Saturday December 2 and 3, and Friday and Saturday December 9 and 10 between 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. For information about the Christmas Parade or other Downtown Christmas events, please contact the Longview Chamber of Commerce at 903-237-4000. Click on <a href=\"http:\/\/longviewtexas.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/files\/city-news\/Christmas%20Parade%20Route.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/longviewtexas.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/files\/city-news\/Christmas%20Parade%20Route.pdf<\/a> to view the parade route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2014 The annual Longview Christmas Parade will take place at 6:30 this evening. Several downtown streets will be closed to vehicle traffic beginning at 5:30 p.m. Barricades will be placed around an approximate eight-block staging area east of Gregg County Court House and the 300 block of E. Methvin Street. Access to the outdoor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=145585\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview Christmas Parade Route and Related Road Closures<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 19:41:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145585","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145585"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146088,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145585\/revisions\/146088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}