{"id":75156,"date":"2025-12-31T23:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75156\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T23:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:10:08","slug":"noon-years-eve-celebrated-at-lackawanna-county-childrens-library-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75156\/","title":{"rendered":"Noon Year\u2019s Eve celebrated at Lackawanna County Children\u2019s Library \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lackawanna County Children\u2019s Library celebrated its first Noon Year\u2019s Eve on Wednesday, giving kids an opportunity to welcome 2026 even if they didn\u2019t stay up until midnight. The free event at the 520 Vine St. library included story time, a dance party, noisemakers, sparkling juice and a countdown to noon on a television screen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Children dance during the Noon Year's Eve: Countdown to 12:00 PM party at the Lackawanna County Children's Library in Scranton Wednesday, December 31, 2025. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"2400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-NOONYEARS-0101-02.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1510216\" \/>Children dance during the Noon Year\u2019s Eve: Countdown to 12:00 PM party at the Lackawanna County Children\u2019s Library in Scranton Wednesday, December 31, 2025. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Bella Russell, 7, of Throop, poses for a photograph during the Noon Year's Eve: Countdown to 12:00 PM at the Lackawanna County Children's Library in Scranton Wednesday, December 31, 2025. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"2400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-NOONYEARS-0101-04.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1510217\" \/>Bella Russell, 7, of Throop, poses for a photograph during the Noon Year\u2019s Eve: Countdown to 12:00 PM at the Lackawanna County Children\u2019s Library in Scranton Wednesday, December 31, 2025. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Dominic Baresse, 5, of Scranton, celebrates during the Noon Year's Eve: Countdown to 12:00 PM party at the Lackawanna County Children's Library in Scranton Wednesday, December 31, 2025. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"2400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-NOONYEARS-0101-03.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1510218\" \/>Dominic Baresse, 5, of Scranton, celebrates during the Noon Year\u2019s Eve: Countdown to 12:00 PM party at the Lackawanna County Children\u2019s Library in Scranton Wednesday, December 31, 2025. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lackawanna County Children\u2019s Library celebrated its first Noon Year\u2019s Eve on Wednesday, giving kids an opportunity to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,8782,28,178,180,179,289,181],"class_list":{"0":"post-75156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-lackawanna-county","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-parenting-and-family","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-scranton","13":"tag-scranton-headlines","14":"tag-scranton-news","15":"tag-things-to-do","16":"tag-top-stories-stt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75156","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=75156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}