Parks<\/p>\n
Lackawanna County parks, including McDade Park in Scranton, Covington Park in Moscow, Merli-Sarnoski Park in Mayfield and Aylesoworth Park in Jermyn, are closed from 8 a.m. Sunday until noon Monday.<\/p>\n
Worship<\/p>\n
Covenant Presbyterian Church, Scranton, has canceled its Sunday worship service. There will be no in-person worship or livestream. Biannual meetings and ordination\/installation of church officers will take place Sunday, Feb. 15.<\/p>\n
The Diocese of Scranton encourages parishioners to go to Mass on Saturday evening to fulfil their weekly obligation. \u201cThe Diocese strongly encourages the faithful to exercise caution and prudent judgment when making travel decisions for Mass this weekend,\u201d the diocese posted on its website. Severe weather is one of the \u201cgrave reasons\u201d that can excuse missing Mass, the statement said. Parishioners who can\u2019t make it are encouraged to watch their parish livestream or the Mass that is televised and streamed from St. Peter\u2019s Cathedral in Scranton on CTV: Catholic Television of the Diocese of Scranton. The Mass is broadcast live every Saturday at 5:30 p.m., and is rebroadcast Sunday at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. The Mass is also available on the Diocese of Scranton website and the Diocese of Scranton YouTube channel. Check parish social media sites for updates. \u201cThe Diocese of Scranton asks all parishioners to follow guidance from state and local emergency officials throughout the duration of the storm.\u201d<\/p>\n
First Presbyterian Church of Clarks Summit\u2019s Sunday worship service is canceled, along with meetings and programs. If the snowstorm cancels public schools Monday, the church office will close as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parks Lackawanna County parks, including McDade Park in Scranton, Covington Park in Moscow, Merli-Sarnoski Park in Mayfield and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,139,28,178,180,179,1133],"class_list":["post-95120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95120","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=95120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}