{"id":319471,"date":"2026-11-02T12:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T12:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/319471\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T12:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T12:44:12","slug":"3-municipalities-receive-state-funding-to-improve-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/319471\/","title":{"rendered":"3 municipalities receive state funding to improve parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Hazleton and the boroughs of White Haven and Freeland all received state funding to help improve parks in their respective municipalities.<\/p>\n<p>The funding was awarded by the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) through the Community Conservation Partnership Program (C2P2).<\/p>\n<p>Hazleton received $300,000 for improvements to Columbus Court Park. The funding will be utilized for new walkways, a new parking area, new playground equipment, stormwater management measures, fencing and landscaping.<\/p>\n<p>Freeland received $100,000 for new walkways, playground equipment, ADA access and landscaping at Freeland Park.<\/p>\n<p>White Haven received $60,000 for new walkways, playground equipment, ADA access and landscaping at Lehigh Park.<\/p>\n<p>The funding was announced recently by state Rep. Dane Watro, R-116, Kline Twp., state Rep. Jamie Walsh, R-117, Ross Twp. and state Sen. Dave Argall, R-29, Rush Twp.<\/p>\n<p>C2P2 assists local governments and recreation and conservation organizations with funding for projects related to parks, recreation and conservation. The program is funded through a variety of state and federal sources and is administered by DCNR.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Hazleton and the boroughs of White Haven and Freeland all received state funding to help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59541,6520,182,803,139,28,30,29,6519,129929],"class_list":["post-319471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-freeland","tag-hazleton","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-top-stories-hzs","tag-white-haven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319471","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=319471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}