{"id":153982,"date":"2026-04-01T04:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/153982\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:33:07","slug":"commissioners-honor-dr-geno-merli-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/153982\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioners honor Dr. Geno Merli \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lackawanna County Commissioners Bill Gaughan, Thom Welby and Chris Chermak proclaimed March 22 Dr. Geno Merli Day in Lackawanna County. A noted physician and former area resident, Merli got together at a recent UNICO event with members of the Scranton chapter for his county recognition. From left: Diana Giovanni, UNICO Scranton; Michael Linko, UNICO Scranton president; Dr. Peter Cognetti, Gail Cicerini and attorney P.J. LaBelle, all of UNICO Scranton; Joseph Nasello Sr., UNICO National president; Merli; Jon Geraci, Michael and Virginia Rescigno, all of UNICO Scranton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lackawanna County Commissioners Bill Gaughan, Thom Welby and Chris Chermak proclaimed March 22 Dr. Geno Merli Day in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[524,201,182,28,727,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-153982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-community","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-photos-and-videos","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153982","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=153982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}