Downtown Pittston Partnership\u2019s Second Friday Art Walk: 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, July 10. Downtown Pittston. Features art, music, shopping, dining and family-friendly entertainment. Live music by Phyllis Hopkins; free face painting and balloon animals for children. Followed by a free outdoor screening of \u201cThe SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants\u201d at the Slope Amphitheater. For information, visit www.downtownpittston.com.<\/p>\n
Hughestown Blue, Red and You Fest: 2 p.m. Saturday, July 11. Hughestown Borough Building, 42 Center St. Live entertainment, food trucks, touch a truck, scavenger hunt, state police helicopter fly in, smoke house and more.<\/p>\n
Nativity of Our Lord Parish Picnic: 5 to 10 p.m. Friday, July 10; 5 to 11 p.m. Saturday, July 11. Parish grounds, Holy Rosary Church and School, 127 Stephenson St., Duryea. Live entertainment, CC Music Band, 6 to 10 p.m. Friday; The Sperrazza Band reunion, 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday. Homemade foods, Polish favorites, wings, pizza, bar, ice cream, homemade baked goods, dessert. Tent seating, cash bingo, games of chance, indoor flea market. Parking and shuttle at Duryea Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1227, Stephenson Street. Early bird flea market, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, July 9, school auditorium. For information, visit www.nativityduryea.org.<\/p>\n
Elm Street Sportsmen Club of Dupont meeting: 7 p.m. Sunday July 12. Clubhouse, Suscon. All members are urged to attend. Multiple issues will be discussed prior to the summer break.<\/p>\n
Mount Zion UMC\u2019s 43rd annual chicken barbecue: Takeout starts 4 p.m.; dine-in 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 18. Mount Zion United Methodist Church pavilion, Mount Zion Road, Harding. Half of a chicken, a baked potato, corn on the cob, slaw, roll and dessert. Cost, $15 for adults. All welcome. To reserve tickets, call Karen Daniels at 570-885-1650. Donations sought and appreciated of nonperishable food for the West Pittston United Methodist Church food pantry and any new or gently used clothes and toys for children up to 18 years old to be donated to Children and Youth Services in Wilkes-Barre.<\/p>\n
Wyoming Free Library Barnes & Noble Book Fair: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, July 18. Barnes & Noble, Wilkes-Barre Twp., or shop online at bn.com\/bookfairs from July 18 to 23 and enter Bookfair ID 12934311 at checkout. Percentage of sales will benefit the library.<\/p>\n
Friends of the Pittston Memorial Library Trivia Night: Register by Saturday, July 18; event, 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, July 21. Cosgrove Room of the library. Cost is $10 per person; play alone or with teams of up to six players. There will be a cash prize for the winning team; raffle baskets and light refreshments. To register or for information, stop by or call the library at 570-654-9565.<\/p>\n
St. Michael\u2019s flea market, dinner and ethnic food fest: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1; 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 2. St. Michael the Archangel Byzantine Catholic Church, 205 N. Main St., Pittston. Spaghetti dinner with sausage and meatballs; potato pancakes; Carpatho-Rusyn ethnic specialties such as homemade pierogi, haluski and stuffed cabbage, locally known as \u201cpiggies\u201d; hot-off-the-grill hamburgers, sausage and peppers, hot dogs and more. Homemade baked goods on Saturday. For flea market updates as the event nears, check stmichaelsbyzantine.com and the church\u2019s social media pages.<\/p>\n
Dupont VFW Home Association\u2019s sock hop dinner dance: RSVP deadline, Friday, Sept. 11; event, 4:30 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12. Dupont Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4909. Dinner; music by Luongo Brothers Band; cash bar. Cost, $30. Donations of calf socks, preferably white, will be collected for area veterans. For tickets, see or call Bob at the post or call 570-472-1152.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Downtown Pittston Partnership\u2019s Second Friday Art Walk: 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, July 10. Downtown Pittston. Features art,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[825,524,4484,2416,1027,1411,4485,4486,182,803,28,2485,4487,178,180,179,4488,4489,804,4490],"class_list":["post-239063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-avoca","tag-community","tag-dupont","tag-duryea","tag-exeter","tag-exeter-township","tag-hughestown","tag-jenkins-township","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pittston","tag-pittston-township","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-west-pittston","tag-west-wyoming","tag-wyoming","tag-yatesville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239063","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=239063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}