{"id":307504,"date":"2026-10-15T22:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T22:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307504\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T22:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T22:04:07","slug":"solstice-bar-in-scranton-closed-following-shutdown-the-week-prior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307504\/","title":{"rendered":"Solstice Bar in Scranton closed following shutdown the week prior"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lackawanna County District Attorney’s Office temporarily closed the bar last week due to public disruption.<\/p>\n

SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Solstice Bar in North Scranton<\/a> has closed permanently after the Lackawanna County District Attorney’s Office temporarily shut it down last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The business<\/a> is permanently closed after the bar’s owner failed to appear in court and was evicted.<\/p>\n

The closure follows the district attorney’s lawsuit to shut down the bar, declaring it a public nuisance.\u00a0<\/p>\n


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The lawsuit was filed following multiple instances of violence and disruption in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The district attorney’s office cited a riot-like scene that occurred on Oct. 3 that blocked West Market Street. Fights broke out, and a large crowd flowed out of the bar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The complaint also cited a shooting that happened the year before on East Market Street, and highlighted the danger these incidents posed to the community.<\/p>\n

Solstice Bar was not the first bar to be shut down this year following violent behavior.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In September, Isla Paraiso<\/a> in West Scranton was closed after multiple public disturbances.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Almost two years ago, the former Blue Face Global Hookah Lounge<\/a> was served an order to vacate the premises just a block away from Solstice Bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lackawanna County District Attorney’s Office temporarily closed the bar last week due to public disruption. SCRANTON, Pa.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-307504","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\/307504","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=307504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}