{"id":1026,"date":"2025-10-15T06:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/1026\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T06:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:46:08","slug":"columbus-day-noted-at-statue-on-courthouse-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/1026\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus Day noted at statue on Courthouse Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Columbus Day Association of Lackawanna County gathered at the Christopher Columbus statue on Courthouse Square Monday morning to lay a wreath. The statue was dedicated in 1892 by the Italian citizens of Scranton to honor the 400th anniversary of Columbus\u2019 arrival in the New World.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Members of the Columbus Day Association of Lackawanna County laid...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Members of the Columbus Day Association of Lackawanna County laid a wreath Monday at the Christopher Columbus statue on Courthouse Square. (CHAD SEBRING\/STAFF PHOTO)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Members of the Columbus Day Association of Lackawanna County laid...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/STT-L-COLUMBUS-CAPST-1014-02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Members of the Columbus Day Association of Lackawanna County laid a wreath Monday at the Christopher Columbus statue on Courthouse Square. (CHAD SEBRING\/STAFF PHOTO)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Members of the Columbus Day Association of Lackawanna County laid...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/STT-L-COLUMBUS-CAPST-1014-03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Members of the Columbus Day Association of Lackawanna County laid a wreath Monday at the Christopher Columbus statue on Courthouse Square. (CHAD SEBRING\/STAFF PHOTO)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 3<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Columbus Day Association of Lackawanna County laid a wreath Monday at the Christopher Columbus statue on Courthouse Square. (CHAD SEBRING\/STAFF PHOTO)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: October 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the Columbus Day Association of Lackawanna County gathered at the Christopher Columbus statue on Courthouse Square&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1068,1069,1070,201,178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-1026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-columbus","9":"tag-columbus-day","10":"tag-holiday","11":"tag-lackawanna-county","12":"tag-scranton","13":"tag-scranton-headlines","14":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}