{"id":178353,"date":"2026-04-28T16:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178353\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T16:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:21:14","slug":"joe-barron-of-pringle-honored-as-elks-citizen-of-the-year-wilkes-barre-citizens-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178353\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Barron of Pringle honored as Elks Citizen of the Year \u2013 Wilkes-Barre Citizens&#8217; Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Barron, Pringle councilman, was honored as Elks Citizen of the Year by the Wilkes-Barre Scranton Elks Lodge 109.<\/p>\n<p>Barron, was chosen for his service to the community and support of lodge events for the community, youth and veterans. He was given a certificate of recognition on April 21 as the Elks Citizen of the Year for 2025-2026.<\/p>\n<p>He was also instrumental in helping with raising a new American flag on the Wilkes-Barre Scranton Elks 109 building, offering the support of the borough to raise the flag and fix the flagpole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Barron, Pringle councilman, was honored as Elks Citizen of the Year by the Wilkes-Barre Scranton Elks Lodge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[524,182,803,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-178353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-community","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178353","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=178353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}