{"id":238098,"date":"2026-07-08T05:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238098\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T05:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:18:20","slug":"expect-delays-on-route-61-during-troopers-funeral-penndot-says-pottsville-republican-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238098\/","title":{"rendered":"Expect delays on Route 61 during trooper\u2019s funeral, PennDOT says \u2013 Pottsville Republican Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists can expect closures Wednesday on a portion of Route 61 due to the funeral procession of fallen Pennsylvania State Trooper Michael E. Pahira Jr., PennDOT announced.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services are set for 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. at North Schuylkill Junior\/Senior High School along Route 61 between Frackville and Butler Township.<\/p>\n<p>The area between Lehigh Avenue in Frackville and Lavelle Road in Butler Twp. will be affected. Traffic will be detoured at times along a route using portions of Routes 61, 54 and 924.<\/p>\n<p>PennDOT says delays should be expected, and asks motorists to exercise caution in the affected areas between 6 a.m. and 4 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists can check conditions on major roadways by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.511pa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">www.511PA.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motorists can expect closures Wednesday on a portion of Route 61 due to the funeral procession of fallen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[182,139,28,30,29,231,2155],"class_list":["post-238098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-schuylkill-county","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238098","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=238098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}