{"id":126197,"date":"2023-12-22T18:55:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T23:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=126197"},"modified":"2023-12-22T18:55:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T23:55:10","slug":"northampton-county-awarding-of-2023-public-safety-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=126197","title":{"rendered":"Northampton County &#8211; Awarding of 2023 Public Safety Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>County Executive Lamont G. McClure\u00a0and the Department of Community and Economic Development announced that County Council approved $344,699 in grants for 21 EMS\/Fire departments at their meeting on Thursday, December 7th.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEMS grants will help supply our police officers and first responders with vital tools and equipment they need to serve the people of Northampton County,\u201d says County Executive McClure.<\/p>\n<p>Public Safety grants are available to Northampton County professional and volunteer Police, Fire, and Emergency Medical Service (EMS) organizations. The funding can be used for capital improvements, vehicle purchases, equipment purchases, and training. Eligible organizations can apply for up to $20,000 per application or project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/unnamed-84.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-126198\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/unnamed-84.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"884\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/unnamed-84.png 884w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/unnamed-84-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/unnamed-84-768x558.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 884px) 100vw, 884px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nCounty of Northampton<br \/>\n669 Washington Street<br \/>\nEaston, PA 18042<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/\">https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>County Executive Lamont G. McClure\u00a0and the Department of Community and Economic Development announced that County Council approved $344,699 in grants for 21 EMS\/Fire departments at their meeting on Thursday, December &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=126197\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Northampton County &#8211; Awarding of 2023 Public Safety Grants<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,5738,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-northampton-county","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/NC-Northampton.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}