{"id":115842,"date":"2026-01-01T04:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T04:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/115842\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T04:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T04:06:13","slug":"long-beach-children-families-celebrate-noon-years-eve-at-local-library-branches-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/115842\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach children, families celebrate \u2018Noon Year\u2019s Eve\u2019 at local library branches \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Long Beach Public Library system hosted its annual \u201cNoon Year\u2019s Eve\u201d events on Wednesday, Dec. 31, with children and their families celebrating the new year early at their local branches.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Long Beach Public Library hosts a Noon Year\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Eve...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LPT-L-NYE-LIBRARY-0101-DK-02.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Long Beach Public Library hosts a Noon Year\u2019s Eve party in Long Beach on Wednesday, December 31, 2025. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Press-Telegram\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jeanette Flores leads a dance class during a Noon Year\u00e2\u0080\u0099s...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LPT-L-NYE-LIBRARY-0101-DK-03.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LPT-L-NYE-LIBRARY-0101-DK-03.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jeanette Flores leads a dance class during a Noon Year\u2019s Eve celebration hosted by Long Beach Public Library on Wednesday, December 31, 2025. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Press-Telegram\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Senior Librarian Petry Saenz leads a crafting class during a...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LPT-L-NYE-LIBRARY-0101-DK-04.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LPT-L-NYE-LIBRARY-0101-DK-04.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Senior Librarian Petry Saenz leads a crafting class during a Noon Year\u2019s Eve celebration hosted by Long Beach Public Library on Wednesday, December 31, 2025. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Press-Telegram\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Long Beach Public Library hosts a Noon Year\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Eve party...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LPT-L-NYE-LIBRARY-0101-DK-05.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LPT-L-NYE-LIBRARY-0101-DK-05.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Public Library hosts a Noon Year\u2019s Eve party in Long Beach on Wednesday, December 31, 2025. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Press-Telegram\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jeanette Flores leads a dance party during a Noon Year\u00e2\u0080\u0099s...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LPT-L-NYE-LIBRARY-0101-DK-01-1.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LPT-L-NYE-LIBRARY-0101-DK-01-1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jeanette Flores leads a dance party during a Noon Year\u2019s Eve celebration hosted by Long Beach Public Library on Wednesday, December 31, 2025. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Press-Telegram\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 5<\/p>\n<p>The Long Beach Public Library hosts a Noon Year\u2019s Eve party in Long Beach on Wednesday, December 31, 2025. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Press-Telegram\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Noon Year\u2019s Eve celebrations took place at several local branches, where kids made crafts, danced counted down to noon and had a balloon drop, among other activities, to ring in 2026 \u2014 without staying up past their bedtimes.<\/p>\n<p>At the Brewitt Neighborhood Library, for example, the celebration was disco-themed, and kids boogied all afternoon with the help of a dance lesson by a professional instructor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Long Beach Public Library system hosted its annual \u201cNoon Year\u2019s Eve\u201d events on Wednesday, Dec. 31, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,23,131,133,132,137,43667],"class_list":{"0":"post-115842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-long-beach","11":"tag-long-beach-headlines","12":"tag-long-beach-news","13":"tag-los-angeles-county","14":"tag-new-years-eve"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}