{"id":145689,"date":"2026-03-23T03:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/145689\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T03:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:04:07","slug":"scranton-rallies-to-support-kilcoynes-bar-owner-after-devastating-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/145689\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton rallies to support Kilcoyne&#8217;s bar owner after devastating fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a devastating fire destroyed the Kilcoyne&#8217;s bar in the West Side Hotel, the Scranton community rallied to support owner Tom Coyne with one last call.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Community members in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a> came out to support a man after a fire destroyed his business.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kilcoyne&#8217;s bar was considered a landmark in Scranton until last year, when a massive fire spread throughout the West Side Hotel, destroying the iconic first-floor bar owned by Tom Coyne.<\/p>\n<p>Large crowds gathered at St. Mary&#8217;s Center along Mifflin Avenue in Scranton, all in an effort to help Coyne following his tragic loss.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The crowd. The people. The West Side people. The glue is always there. They show up, and they show up for everybody. That&#8217;s the greatest thing about Scranton. When somebody&#8217;s down, Scranton will lift you up,&#8221; said the organizer of the event, EJ Dougher.<\/p>\n<p>All funds raised from Sunday&#8217;s event will go directly towards helping Coyne after the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a devastating fire destroyed the Kilcoyne&#8217;s bar in the West Side Hotel, the Scranton community rallied to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-145689","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\/145689","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=145689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}