{"id":283898,"date":"2026-09-11T16:58:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283898\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T16:58:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:58:26","slug":"water-issue-prompts-early-dismissal-of-north-poconos-jefferson-elementary-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283898\/","title":{"rendered":"Water issue prompts early dismissal of North Pocono\u2019s Jefferson Elementary \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The North Pocono School District dismissed students at Jefferson Elementary Center early Friday due to a water issue at the school in Jefferson Twp.<\/p>\n<p>Students were dismissed at 10:30 a.m., per a district social media post. The early dismissal applied only to Jefferson Elementary students, with all other district buildings remaining in session for the full school day.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers and staff at Jefferson Elementary were not dismissed early but have access to restroom facilities at the nearby Jefferson Twp. Lions Club building, school police officer William Hartshorn said when reached by phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The North Pocono School District dismissed students at Jefferson Elementary Center early Friday due to a water issue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1283,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-283898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-jefferson-township","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283898","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=283898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}