{"id":26335,"date":"2025-11-06T04:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T04:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/26335\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T04:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T04:58:07","slug":"former-mayor-of-scranton-david-wenzel-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/26335\/","title":{"rendered":"Former mayor of Scranton David Wenzel dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU)\u2014 The 27th mayor of Scranton, David Wenzel, has passed away, according to a release from the Scranton mayor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wenzel, a Republican, was a heroic Vietnam veteran, a decorated U.S. Army veteran, and a graduate of the University of Scranton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/wilkes-barre-based-beauty-brand-231830614.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Wilkes-Barre based beauty brand lends helping hand;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Wilkes-Barre based beauty brand lends helping hand <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His death coincided with the University of Scranton\u2019s Life of Service event at the Weinberg Memorial Library, where they were to present their Public Service Award on the 40th anniversary of his election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Funeral arrangements are currently unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU)\u2014 The 27th mayor of Scranton, David Wenzel, has passed away, according to a release&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[17089,201,178,180,179,574,17168],"class_list":{"0":"post-26335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-david-wenzel","9":"tag-lackawanna-county","10":"tag-scranton","11":"tag-scranton-headlines","12":"tag-scranton-news","13":"tag-university-of-scranton","14":"tag-weinberg-memorial-library"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26335","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=26335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}