{"id":156585,"date":"2026-04-03T19:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156585\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:57:07","slug":"bosaks-in-olyphant-draws-crowds-ahead-of-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156585\/","title":{"rendered":"Bosak&#8217;s in Olyphant draws crowds ahead of holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shoppers filled Bosak&#8217;s Choice Meats, grabbing all the last-minute essentials ahead of Easter.<\/p>\n<p>OLYPHANT, Pa. \u2014 Folks in Lackawanna County are making sure to pick up the last of their holiday groceries.<\/p>\n<p>The parking lot at Bosak&#8217;s Choice Meats in Olyphant was completely full on Friday as customers bought their Easter meat, from fresh and smoked kielbasa to ham.<\/p>\n<p>The owner tells Newswatch 16 that this is the second busiest holiday of the year, behind Christmas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ah, it&#8217;s very, very busy, nonstop, and we just keep going until we shut down at five o&#8217;clock. The crew will be burnt out, we&#8217;re all burnt out, and we will be done. Tomorrow is not as bad, but today&#8217;s gonna be insane,&#8221; said Tom Bosak.<\/p>\n<p>Bosak&#8217;s Choice Meats will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and closed on Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shoppers filled Bosak&#8217;s Choice Meats, grabbing all the last-minute essentials ahead of Easter. OLYPHANT, Pa. \u2014 Folks in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-156585","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\/156585","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=156585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}