{"id":229429,"date":"2026-06-27T05:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T05:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/229429\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T05:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T05:28:13","slug":"pittston-to-hold-first-ever-patriot-5k-walk-run-on-july-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/229429\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittston to hold First-Ever Patriot 5K Walk\/Run on July 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>PITTSTON \u2014 The City of Pittston has a new event on the calendar and this one coincides with the Fourth of July marking the nation\u2019s semiquincentennial.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriot Classic 5K Run\/Walk will take place on July 4 with a starting time of 9 a.m. using the Tomato Festival route.<\/p>\n<p>After the race, there will be a hometown celebration featuring live music and entertainment, hot dogs, food trucks, and more all at the Tomato Festival lower lot.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Pittston, Mayor Michael Lombardo and NEPA Racing are the official sponsors and the event benefits Shop with a Cop of NEPA.<\/p>\n<p>To enter the walk\/run, go to https:\/\/my.raceresult.com\/393993\/.<\/p>\n<p>The cost is $35 per participant. Late registration will also take place on the day of the race between 7:45 a.m. until 8:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Awards include: overall Top 3 male and female age group awards, $500 team award to the fastest High School Cross Country Team and cash prize for breaking the course record.<\/p>\n<p>Group categories are: 4 &amp; under, 15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70+.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; PITTSTON \u2014 The City of Pittston has a new event on the calendar and this one coincides&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-229429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229429","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=229429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}