{"id":218838,"date":"2026-06-14T07:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218838\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T07:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:52:19","slug":"jumping-into-summertime-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218838\/","title":{"rendered":"Jumping into summertime in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 Some exciting news for kids and families in and around the Scranton area: the city\u2019s public pools are open. Hundreds of people headed to Connell Park Saturday afternoon for a dip in the pool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kids splashed around, teens dove in at the deep end, and others found a spot in the shade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It\u2019s a community space for people of all ages to make fun summer memories for kids like Robbie Spann and Amariyana Johnson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/keeping-party-rocking-pocono-raceway-221335567.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Keeping the party rocking at the Pocono Raceway;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;Keeping the party rocking at the Pocono Raceway&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Keeping the party rocking at the Pocono Raceway <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI like jumping in the pool a lot,\u201d Scranton resident Robbie Spann said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cYou get to spend time with your friends and play in the pool,\u201d Amariyana Johnson from Scranton told 28\/22 News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Besides the Connell Park Pool, the Weston Park Pool and the Novembrino Splash Pad opened in the Electric City.<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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 Some exciting news for kids and families in and around the Scranton area:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[95482,95483,95484,201,61298,95481,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-218838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-amariyana-johnson","tag-connell-park","tag-exciting-news","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-public-pools","tag-robbie-spann","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218838","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=218838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}