{"id":263072,"date":"2026-08-11T05:44:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263072\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T05:44:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:44:25","slug":"pope-leo-knows-scranton-ballot-measures-and-hazletons-underground-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263072\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo knows Scranton, ballot measures and Hazleton&#8217;s underground history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Monday, Aug. 10, let&#8217;s get Up to Date:<\/p>\n<p>Election boards in Lackawanna, Luzerne counties to act on stock trade ban ballot questions<br \/>Election boards in Lackawanna and Luzerne counties <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvia.org\/news\/local\/2026-08-07\/election-boards-in-lackawanna-luzerne-counties-to-act-on-stock-trade-ban-ballot-questions\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">will soon vote<\/a> on approving stock trade ban voter questions for the Nov. 3 election ballot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Oh, I know Scranton,&#8217; Pope Leo XIV tells U of S President Marina during Rome pilgrimage<br \/>The Rev. Joseph G. Marina, president of The University of Scranton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvia.org\/news\/local\/2026-08-09\/oh-i-know-scranton-pope-leo-xiv-tells-u-of-s-president-marina-during-rome-pilgrimage\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recently met Pope Leo XIV<\/a> as part of the 2026 Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities Presidents&#8217; pilgrimage to Rome.<\/p>\n<p>NEWS VOICES: &#8216;The Secrets Beneath Hazleton&#8217; explores city&#8217;s underground<br \/>What secrets live beneath Hazleton? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvia.org\/podcast\/news-voices\/2026-08-10\/news-voices-the-secrets-beneath-hazleton-explores-citys-underground\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">That\u2019s a question WVIA producer, director, and editor Tim Novotney has been digging into for more than a year.<\/a> His documentary \u201cThe Secrets Beneath Hazleton\u201d debuts on WVIA-TV next month. He joins WVIA&#8217;s Sarah Scinto in the podcast studio to discuss the film and the impact it&#8217;s already had in Hazleton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Monday, Aug. 10, let&#8217;s get Up to Date: Election boards in Lackawanna, Luzerne counties to act on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-263072","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\/263072","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=263072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}