{"id":269919,"date":"2026-08-22T02:30:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269919\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T02:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:30:36","slug":"beach-zero-shop-will-close-this-fall-its-time-to-move-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269919\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach Zero shop will close this fall. &#8216;It&#8217;s time to move on&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 21, 2026, 5:01 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Tom and Kathy Carlotti are looking forward to their first real summer in 20 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The couple have owned and operated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beachzero.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Beach Zero<\/a>, a seasonal beach and souvenir shop at the entrance to Presque Isle State Park, since 2007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">They&#8217;re retiring at the end of this year and will have next summer all to themselves. Beach Zero will close this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 21, 2026, 5:01 a.m. ET Tom and Kathy Carlotti are looking forward to their first real summer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[596,136,138,137,539,82371,646,647,4762,1143,6817,2516,651,5251,542,4535,12866,8416,80136,1140,535],"class_list":["post-269919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-accessmetered","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-pa","tag-sourceerie-times-news","tag-sstsnewslocal","tag-sstsnlocal","tag-tagbeaches-islands","tag-tagerie","tag-tagerie-business","tag-taglocal-affiliate-travel","tag-taglocal-news","tag-tagmillcreek-township","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagpresque-isle-state-park","tag-tagretail","tag-tagshopping","tag-tagstore-closure","tag-tagstory-highlights-ai-enabled","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269919","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=269919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}