{"id":173385,"date":"2026-04-23T00:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173385\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:45:09","slug":"scranton-residents-mark-earth-day-with-hands-on-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173385\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton residents mark Earth Day with hands-on effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 Lackawanna County is marking Earth Day with hands-on efforts across Scranton. On Wednesday, the county hosted an information fair inside the government center, while volunteers cleaned up around the courthouse, picking up trash and cigarette butts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The county says it\u2019s all about raising awareness and encouraging small actions that make a big difference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/pennsylvania-weather-rainy-morning-turns-111724446.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Pennsylvania weather: Rainy morning turns to peeks of sun;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Pennsylvania weather: Rainy morning turns to peeks of sun <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cA lot of the time always get people saying to us they didn\u2019t know that our office existed until we come out, and we\u2019re like, \u2018Hey, we\u2019re the environmental office,&#8217;\u201d Education Specialist Markieann Muncie explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The effort continues this weekend with a county Earth Day event Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at McDade Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 Lackawanna County is marking Earth Day with hands-on efforts across Scranton. On Wednesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[77793,67611,77796,77794,201,77795,178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-173385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-cigarette-butts","9":"tag-earth-day","10":"tag-hands-on-efforts","11":"tag-information-fair","12":"tag-lackawanna-county","13":"tag-picking-up-trash","14":"tag-scranton","15":"tag-scranton-headlines","16":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173385","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=173385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}