{"id":290013,"date":"2026-09-20T01:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T01:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/290013\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T01:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T01:58:11","slug":"residents-celebrate-the-place-they-call-home-at-the-welcoming-scranton-event-in-lackawanna-county-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/290013\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents celebrate the place they call home at the &#8216;Welcoming Scranton&#8217; event in Lackawanna County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Saturday, residents in <a data-ylk=\"slk:Scranton;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Scranton<\/a> celebrated the place they call home at &#8216;Welcoming Scranton.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Community members came out to Cedar Avenue for a day of connection and fun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The event highlights the traditions, cultures, and people that make the Electric City so unique.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8216;Welcoming Scranton&#8217; featured cultural performances, vendors, and informational booths for various local resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;This event celebrates the long-term residents and newcomers getting to know one another, getting to know each other&#8217;s stories and celebrating the cultural diversity of the area,&#8221; said Audrey Golosky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8216;Welcoming Scranton&#8217; has brought the community together for 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday, residents in Scranton celebrated the place they call home at &#8216;Welcoming Scranton.&#8217; Community members came out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[120397,178,180,179,60150],"class_list":["post-290013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-informational-booths","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-welcoming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290013","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=290013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}