SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 The City of Scranton is scheduled to host a grand opening ceremony for the brand-new Nay Aug Park pool on Wednesday afternoon at 12 noon.<\/p>\n
The highly anticipated opening restores a major recreational feature to the city’s largest park. The project’s first phase cost an estimated $4.6 million and was funded through a combination of public investment sources, including $3 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act money, a $1 million Local Share Account statewide grant distributed by the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, and additional city funds. <\/p>\n
Local officials noted that Phase I of the project delivers a zero-entry swimming pool equipped with an industrial waterslide and interactive water play features. The new facility represents a significant milestone for the park, reviving community swimming at the site after the original, historic pool complex was closed during the pandemic and ultimately demolished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 The City of Scranton is scheduled to host a grand opening ceremony for the brand-new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,7252,7510,89335,178,180,179,62794],"class_list":["post-225825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-nay-aug-park","tag-nepa","tag-public-pool","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-swimming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225825","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=225825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}