{"id":75949,"date":"2026-01-02T02:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75949\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T02:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:53:10","slug":"new-years-babies-welcomed-in-montour-lackawanna-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75949\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s babies welcomed in Montour, Lackawanna counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two baby boys in our area were welcomed into the world on New Year&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>DANVILLE, Pa. \u2014 Hospitals in our area are celebrating the arrival of New Year&#8217;s babies.<\/p>\n<p>Kyra Carl and Lucas Bates welcomed Owen Charlee Bates at 2:38 a.m. Thursday at Geisinger Medical Center near Danville.<\/p>\n<p>Owen is 8 pounds, 5.9 ounces, and 20 inches long. He joins older siblings Devin, Arthur, and Esmae.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the Bates family on their newest New Year&#8217;s addition.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a6a11b30-2d7a-4795-b543-994095dd8b62_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a6a11b30-2d7a-4795-b543-994095dd8b62_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In Scranton, Commonwealth Health Moses Taylor Hospital welcomed baby Luis at 12:54 a.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Luis measured 20 inches long and 6.7 pounds. He was born to proud parents, Destiny and James of Scranton, marking a joyful start to the New Year.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/f29e46a0-4025-48c1-9291-10880464666f_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/f29e46a0-4025-48c1-9291-10880464666f_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Geisinger Community Medical Center in Scranton also welcomed its first baby of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Concise Midnight Tahji was born to Cashay Clarke and Christian Tahji of Blakely at 2:17 a.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Concise measured 21 and 3\/4 inches and weighed 7 pounds, 12.2 ounces. He is the couple\u2019s second child.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to this family on their new little bundle of joy.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fd68158e-e70b-4b60-a979-1abd8578a7f0_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fd68158e-e70b-4b60-a979-1abd8578a7f0_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two baby boys in our area were welcomed into the world on New Year&#8217;s Day. DANVILLE, Pa. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-75949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75949","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=75949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}