STROUDSBURG, Pa. – With four music stages, 170 vendors, and mountains of food, Stroudfest will attract more than 20,000 people this year.<\/p>\n
Stroudfest organizer Sarah Collier calls it one of the best family attractions in the Poconos.<\/p>\n
“I think it really brings everybody together. Everybody knows that when Labor Day weekend is coming around, that means StroudFest is coming as well,\u201d Collier said.<\/p>\n
But last weekend, hundreds gathered for a different reason. It caused the borough to declare a state of emergency that temporarily banned large gatherings between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.<\/p>\n
A blue Corvette was recorded doing donuts. The car was reported stolen from a car dealership in Rhode Island and was later found abandoned in New Jersey. Days later, the skid marks were still visible in the street.<\/p>\n
“It was horrifying, and I was embarrassed for the people involved, and I hope that something like that never happens again. It’s youthful exuberance, and I wish people would think before they act,\u201d said Mayor Ellen Currie.<\/p>\n
“We’ve also been working very closely with Stroud Regional and the borough. We also have our own security team as well, so there will be a presence, and we are working on keeping everything safe,\u201d Collier said.<\/p>\n
The Mayor called the ban a temporary measure to get things back to normal, and because the ban on large gatherings was only for the overnight hours and has now expired, Collier says Stroudfest 2026 is a go!<\/p>\n
“We’re getting some local people, but we also get people from out of town. It’s really good exposure for Stroudsburg,\u201d Collier said.<\/p>\n
StroudFest runs Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., in the heart of downtown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STROUDSBURG, Pa. – With four music stages, 170 vendors, and mountains of food, Stroudfest will attract more than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,64683,28,8885,116929,26534],"class_list":["post-279442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-labor-day","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pocono-mountains","tag-stroudfest","tag-stroudsburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279442","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=279442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}