{"id":124203,"date":"2026-02-26T15:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124203\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T15:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:55:11","slug":"knights-of-lithuania-raise-flag-at-pittston-memorial-library-diocese-of-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124203\/","title":{"rendered":"Knights of Lithuania raise flag at Pittston Memorial Library \u2013 Diocese of Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127249\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Flag-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"846\"  \/>First row pictured, from left to right, Judy Stodolny, Lainey Mentrikoski, Rob Kiska, Elaine Elko, Janet Palladino, Dennis Palladino, Brian Doughton<br \/>from State Senator Marty Flynn\u2019s staff, George Brown \u2013 Mayor of Wilkes-Barre, Mary Claire Voveris, Beverly Harnen, June Supey, Mike Loncoski,<br \/>Irene Kovaleski and John Kovaleski.<br \/>Second row pictured, from left to right, Mary Ladish, Yvonne Branas, Marilyn Fitzgerald, Joe Francik, State Representative Jim Haddock, Tom<br \/>Wierbowski, Mike Lombardo \u2013 Mayor of Pittston, Tyler McAlpine from Senator Dave McCormick\u2019s staff, Bill Sodnik, Ruth Wnuk, Don Waxmonsky,<br \/>Sylvia Waxmonsky, Mary Policare and Stanley Holko.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Knights of Lithuania Council 143, Pittston, celebrated the 108th anniversary of the independence of Lithuania by holding a ceremony on February 19th at the Pittston Memorial Library. Federal, state and city officials were present and presented citations and proclamations recognizing the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 First row pictured, from left to right, Judy Stodolny, Lainey Mentrikoski, Rob Kiska, Elaine Elko, Janet Palladino,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-124203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124203","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=124203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}