{"id":217773,"date":"2026-06-12T21:11:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217773\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T21:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:11:18","slug":"emta-celebrates-14th-fest-60-years-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217773\/","title":{"rendered":"EMTA celebrates 14th Fest, 60 years of service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was a chance to celebrate on 14th Street Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority invited the public to drop by its headquarters for 14th Fest; a celebration with live music, food and fun as a way to give back to the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/on-our-air\/newsmaker\/newsmaker-sarah-morrison-talks-emtas-14th-fest\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Newsmaker: Sarah Morrison talks EMTA\u2019s 14th Fest;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;Newsmaker&quot;}\"> Newsmaker: Sarah Morrison talks EMTA\u2019s 14th Fest <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While the weather tamped down the crowd early, an enthusiastic group showed up to enjoy the set up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There were food trucks and breweries on hand for adults as well as a children\u2019s activity area and a bus from the fleet to check out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThis is the first event that happens downtown Erie, and it\u2019s really the only event that happens on 14th Street, so we\u2019re in the mid-city corridor with our friends here,\u201d said Sarah Morrison, director of marketing and public relations for EMTA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This year is also the 60th anniversary for the EMTA.<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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.yourerie.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 WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;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 WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a chance to celebrate on 14th Street Thursday evening. The Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority invited the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[85228,136,138,17018,137,95172,94542],"class_list":["post-217773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-14th-street","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-metropolitan-transit-authority","tag-erie-news","tag-food-and-fun","tag-sarah-morrison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217773","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=217773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}