{"id":310412,"date":"2026-10-20T08:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310412\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:36:11","slug":"penndot-honors-local-employees-for-innovation-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310412\/","title":{"rendered":"PennDOT honors local employees for innovation \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation recently recognized PennDOT employees with Innovation Awards for creating efficiencies and implementing best practices. Three team members from District 4, which represents Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming counties, were among the honorees. Each employee receives a custom award that represents PennDOT\u2019s appreciation for their dedication and commitment to efficient and effective operations at all levels of the organization. From left: Andy Firment, Valley Twp., Armstrong County; Katie Drumheller, Dorrance Twp., Luzerne County; and Lonell Tomaine, Blakely, Lackawanna County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation recently recognized PennDOT employees with Innovation Awards for creating efficiencies and implementing best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[524,201,182,803,28,727,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-310412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-community","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-photos-and-videos","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310412","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=310412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}