{"id":210755,"date":"2026-06-04T18:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/210755\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T18:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:10:15","slug":"residents-get-taste-of-greece-in-electric-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/210755\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents get taste of Greece in Electric City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:WBRE;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"WBRE\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/232C1E841BC0BB863E0E9B74B574D5BADEBDCEDD7912DF6C56EBCD799BAD61E9\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefill_w0_h40;quality_80;format_webp\/\"\/><\/a>Wed, June 3, 2026 at 11:16 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_wbre_articles_226\/8610c5339fd5af80a415a31d0eafea0f.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 Get ready for a taste of Greece right in the Electric City: The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church is hosting its Annual Summer Greek Food Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The church is located in downtown Scranton on North Washington Street.<\/p>\n<p>A wide variety of Greek food is available on the menu, which brings people from all over to the area.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:Suspect in custody, one person injured after Scranton shooting;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\/news\/scranton-police-respond-to-gunshot-victim-on-3rd-avenue\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Suspect in custody, one person injured after Scranton shooting\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s wonderful that we all come together, and we can, you know, present this to you know the community with people driving as far as Luzerne County, the Poconos is coming to try our food, and year after year. A lot of people have come back, which is wonderful,&#8221; Festival Coordinator Alex Molfetas explained.<\/p>\n<p>The festival runs through Saturday and is open daily from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wed, June 3, 2026 at 11:16 PM UTC SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 Get ready for a taste&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,92360,178,180,179,47956],"class_list":["post-210755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-north-washington-street","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-the-electric-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210755","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=210755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}