{"id":210792,"date":"2026-06-04T18:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/210792\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T18:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:48:08","slug":"valley-view-students-celebrate-jessup-archbald-and-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/210792\/","title":{"rendered":"Valley View students celebrate Jessup, Archbald and America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valley View Intermediate School celebrated Jessup and Archbald\u2019s 150th anniversaries this year, as well as America\u2019s 250th birthday on Wednesday. Officials from both towns presented time capsules and students grades 3 through 5 sang patriotic songs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Third grader Logan Gilgallon sings \u201cProud to be an American\u201d...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/STT-L-VALLEYVIEW-0604-01.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Third grader Logan Gilgallon sings \u201cProud to be an American\u201d with fellow students during an event celebrating the sesquicentennial of Archbald and Jessup, as well as American\u2019s 250th birthday,  at the Valley View Intermediate School in Archbald Wednesday, June 3, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Third grade students sing \u201cProud to be an American\u201d during...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/STT-L-VALLEYVIEW-0604-03.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/STT-L-VALLEYVIEW-0604-03.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Third grade students sing \u201cProud to be an American\u201d during an event celebrating the sesquicentennial of Archbald and Jessup, as well as American\u2019s 250th birthday,  at the Valley View Intermediate School in Archbald Wednesday, June 3, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fifth grade students sing \u201cNifty Fifty United States\u201d during an...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/STT-L-VALLEYVIEW-0604-04.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/STT-L-VALLEYVIEW-0604-04.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fifth grade students sing \u201cNifty Fifty United States\u201d during an event celebrating the sesquicentennial of Archbald and Jessup, as well as American\u2019s 250th birthday,  at the Valley View Intermediate School in Archbald Wednesday, June 3, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 3<\/p>\n<p>Third grader Logan Gilgallon sings \u201cProud to be an American\u201d with fellow students during an event celebrating the sesquicentennial of Archbald and Jessup, as well as American\u2019s 250th birthday,  at the Valley View Intermediate School in Archbald Wednesday, June 3, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valley View Intermediate School celebrated Jessup and Archbald\u2019s 150th anniversaries this year, as well as America\u2019s 250th birthday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2117,2119,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-210792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-archbald","tag-jessup","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210792","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=210792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}