{"id":137980,"date":"2026-03-14T03:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/137980\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T03:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:34:07","slug":"kyle-gilmartin-receives-award-at-annual-friendly-sons-of-st-patrick-of-lackawanna-county-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/137980\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Gilmartin receives award at annual Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of Lackawanna County dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dinner was held in downtown Scranton for its third year.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Lackawanna County&#8217;s Friendly Sons of St. Patrick honored Scranton Police Detective Kyle Gilmartin at their annual dinner on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The organization presented Gilmartin with its &#8220;President&#8217;s Award&#8221; tonight at its 120th dinner at the Scranton Cultural Center. Organizers tell Newswatch 16 the officer showed tremendous sacrifice and bravery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re afloat because of this community, and that&#8217;s what is most important, and I learned that this community supports its police officers and wants its police here, and they have our back,&#8221; said Gilmartin.<\/p>\n<p>More than 700 people gathered at the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick dinner here in Scranton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The dinner was held in downtown Scranton for its third year. SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Lackawanna County&#8217;s Friendly Sons&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-137980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137980","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=137980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}