{"id":198433,"date":"2026-05-21T01:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198433\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T01:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:36:10","slug":"new-pickleball-basketball-courts-opened-at-nay-aug-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198433\/","title":{"rendered":"New pickleball, basketball courts opened at Nay Aug Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 The ribbon was cut Wednesday on a brand new outdoor multi-court facility at Nay Aug Park in Scranton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The area features eight pickle ball courts and two basketball courts located next to the Nay Aug community room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The courts are also near the new pool at the park, which will open for the first time later this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Park officials say the new outdoor facility can help bring new programs to Nay Aug.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/articles\/st-ubaldo-day-races-back-171903288.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:St. Ubaldo Day races back to Jessup;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;St. Ubaldo Day races back to Jessup&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> St. Ubaldo Day races back to Jessup <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe nice thing about this footprint is it gives us the ability to expand our programming, so perhaps have some pickleball clinics up here extend some basketball, lessons things like that and get more kids involved so they are doing more healthy positive thigs so they have nice fun things to do,\u201d Dana Force, Director of Scranton Parks and Recreation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The million-dollar complex was made possible through a grant and the city\u2019s Capital Budget Fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 The ribbon was cut Wednesday on a brand new outdoor multi-court facility at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[14794,7252,88058,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-198433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-basketball-courts","tag-nay-aug-park","tag-outdoor-facility","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198433","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=198433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}