{"id":264961,"date":"2026-08-14T01:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264961\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T01:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:02:14","slug":"splash-pad-opens-in-scrantons-pinebrook-section-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264961\/","title":{"rendered":"Splash pad opens in Scranton&#8217;s Pinebrook section"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A ribbon-cutting Thursday kicked off a new addition to the Pinebrook neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">With federal and state funding, the neighborhood has a new playground and splash pad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Our first thing was to fill in the pool, of course, and make it safe, but over these years we&#8217;ve been able to put together the state and federal funding to make this now a splash pad and a really, really great park,&#8221; said Mayor Paige Cognetti (D), Scranton.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">With only four pools in the city, all far from Pinebrook, families are excited to be close to the park on Capouse Avenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The whole time I&#8217;ve lived here, it&#8217;s been a grown-over lot, a grown-over pool, that was never maintained, so when they started renovating it, we&#8217;ve been watching the progress all summer, and waiting,&#8221; said Sheli Pratt-McHugh. &#8220;It&#8217;s been hot until October lately, so I&#8217;m hoping we can get a lot of use out of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The city said this is part of a revitalization project, costing about $1.8 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A ribbon-cutting Thursday kicked off a new addition to the Pinebrook neighborhood. With federal and state funding, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[4124,2497,111918,178,180,179,100478],"class_list":["post-264961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-federal-funding","tag-paige-cognetti","tag-pinebrook","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-splash-pad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264961","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=264961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}