{"id":200632,"date":"2026-05-23T11:51:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200632\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T11:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:51:27","slug":"lackawanna-county-honors-mid-valley-senior-for-statewide-america250-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200632\/","title":{"rendered":"Lackawanna County honors Mid Valley senior for statewide America250 scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Lackawanna County commissioners recognized a Mid Valley High School senior this week after he was selected as one of just 25 students statewide to receive a major scholarship tied to America\u2019s upcoming 250th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Betti was honored during a county commissioners meeting after earning a $10,000 scholarship from America250PA along with a matching $10,000 grant from Penn State University to support his future education.<\/p>\n<p>County officials said Betti was recognized for his strong academic achievement and his understanding of the evolution of American citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioners Bill Gaughan, Thom Welby, and Chris Chermak participated in the recognition ceremony alongside members of Betti\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>The scholarship program is part of Pennsylvania\u2019s broader America250 initiative, which commemorates the nation\u2019s 250th anniversary in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Lackawanna County commissioners recognized a Mid Valley High School senior this week after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-200632","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\/200632","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=200632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}