{"id":289991,"date":"2026-09-20T01:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T01:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/289991\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T01:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T01:08:07","slug":"residents-celebrate-the-place-they-call-home-at-the-welcoming-scranton-event-in-lackawanna-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/289991\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents celebrate the place they call home at the &#8216;Welcoming Scranton&#8217; event in Lackawanna County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Welcoming Scranton&#8217; celebrates cultural diversity, the traditions, cultures, and people that make the Electric City so unique.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 On Saturday, residents in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scranton<\/a> celebrated the place they call home at &#8216;Welcoming Scranton.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Community members came out to Cedar Avenue for a day of connection and fun.<\/p>\n<p>The event highlights the traditions, cultures, and people that make the Electric City so unique.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Welcoming Scranton&#8217; featured cultural performances, vendors, and informational booths for various local resources.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This event celebrates the long-term residents and newcomers getting to know one another, getting to know each other&#8217;s stories and celebrating the cultural diversity of the area,&#8221; said Audrey Golosky.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Welcoming Scranton&#8217; has brought the community together for 10 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Welcoming Scranton&#8217; celebrates cultural diversity, the traditions, cultures, and people that make the Electric City so unique. SCRANTON,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-289991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289991","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=289991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}