{"id":234816,"date":"2026-07-03T16:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234816\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T16:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:32:08","slug":"scrantastic-spectacular-set-to-kick-off-with-live-music-fireworks-and-festivities-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234816\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrantastic Spectacular set to kick off with live music, fireworks, and festivities downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thousands will soon be gathering along Courthouse Square as the Scrantastic Spectacular is set to kick off at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n

SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Folks in the Electric City will soon be donning their red, white, and blue as the city prepares to kick off its Fourth of July festivities.<\/p>\n

The Scrantastic Spectacular<\/a> is set to begin at 4 p.m. with vendors, food, live music, as well as games and bounce houses for kids along Courthouse Square.<\/p>\n

98.5 KRZ’s Melissa Krahnke will be at the Scrantastic Side Stage from 4:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Shane Profitt will take the Scrantastic Main Stage at 7 p.m., followed by a live performance from the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic at 8:15 p.m.<\/p>\n


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The annual fireworks display will cap off the evening’s festivities.<\/p>\n

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Parking restrictions will be in place beginning at noon on Friday for the following roads:<\/p>\n

100-200-300 blocks of Adams Avenue400-500-600 blocks of Biden \/ (Spruce) Street400-500-600 blocks of Linden Street\u00a0100-200-300 blocks of North Washington Avenue <\/p>\n

‘NO PARKING’ signs have been posted throughout downtown Scranton. Violators risk having their vehicles towed.<\/p>\n

Authorities say drivers should expect traffic delays and should allow extra time for their travels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands will soon be gathering along Courthouse Square as the Scrantastic Spectacular is set to kick off at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-234816","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\/234816","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=234816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}