{"id":277492,"date":"2026-09-02T18:04:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277492\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T18:04:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:04:49","slug":"back-to-school-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277492\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to school! \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published September 02. 2026 10:19AM<\/p>\n<p>CONTRIBUTED PHOTOSKing Tavarez, a first-grader at Gockley Elementary School, shows off his Pokemon backpack for the first day of school for the 2026-27 academic year. Classes in Whitehall-Coplay School District began Aug. 24.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Tavarez, a sixth-grade student at\u00a0Whitehall-Coplay Middle School, is excited for the start of school.<\/p>\n<p>Aiyana Tavarez heads off to fourth grade at Zephyr Middle School.<\/p>\n<p>Madison Piger, in third grade at Steckel Elementary School, and Tyler Piger, a kindergartner at Gockley Elementary, are all smiles for the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Kindergartner at Gockley Averly Donlon and eighth-grader at WCMS Andre Donlon take a moment together for the start of school.<\/p>\n<p>Madison Fehnel, a senior at Whitehall High School, and DJ Fehnel, an 11th-grader at WHS, head off to school Aug. 24. Additional back-to-school photos will appear in upcoming editions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published September 02. 2026 10:19AM CONTRIBUTED PHOTOSKing Tavarez, a first-grader at Gockley Elementary School, shows off his Pokemon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-277492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277492","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=277492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}