{"id":176891,"date":"2026-04-26T23:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176891\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T23:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:48:08","slug":"lackawanna-county-bar-set-to-close-after-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176891\/","title":{"rendered":"Lackawanna County bar set to close after 12 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff at the Ale Mary&#8217;s bar in Scranton tell Newswatch 16 that it will close after the end of business day on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Sunday was the final call for a popular bar in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Staff at Ale Mary&#8217;s at the Bittenbender in downtown Scranton tell Newswatch16 that the bar restaurant will be closing its door for good.<\/p>\n<p>A staple stop along Franklin Avenue, Ale Mary&#8217;s has been known for its vast drink selection since opening in 2014, a few years after Whistles Pub and Restaurant closed in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Ale Mary&#8217;s was sold and officially reopened under Settlers Hospitality Management Group.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Newswatch 16 has reached out to a representative of Settlers Hospitality, but did not receive a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staff at the Ale Mary&#8217;s bar in Scranton tell Newswatch 16 that it will close after the end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-176891","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\/176891","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=176891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}