{"id":259412,"date":"2026-08-05T04:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T04:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259412\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T04:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T04:42:06","slug":"25th-annual-lebanese-american-food-festival-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259412\/","title":{"rendered":"25th annual Lebanese-American Food Festival \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of St. Joseph Melkite Greek-Catholic Church, West Scranton, are putting the final touches on their 25th annual Lebanese-American Food Festival to be held Friday and Saturday, 4-9 p.m., and Sunday, 1-7 p.m. Enter on Cabrini Avenue off lower Jackson Street and park in surrounding areas. Ethnic foods plus local picnic food favorites are served along with basket raffle, instant bingo and 50\/50. Eat under a tent or take out. For information: melkitescranton.org or Facebook. Rain or shine. Rear, from left: Katie Patchoski, chairwoman; Alicia V. Patchoski, chairwoman; Karen Abda Kane, pastries; Nathan Lefler, cook; and Lucas Patchoski. Holding signs: Charlotte Patchoski and Montserrat Lefler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of St. Joseph Melkite Greek-Catholic Church, West Scranton, are putting the final touches on their 25th annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[524,201,182,28,727,178,180,179,289],"class_list":["post-259412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-community","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-photos-and-videos","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259412","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=259412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}