{"id":323425,"date":"2026-11-08T02:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T02:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/323425\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T02:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T02:08:10","slug":"cookie-stroll-brings-shoppers-downtown-to-support-local-businesses-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/323425\/","title":{"rendered":"Cookie Stroll Brings Shoppers Downtown to Support Local Businesses | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a sweet tooth, this event was the perfect match.<\/p>\n<p>The Erie Cookie Stroll brought people into downtown Erie for a day of treats and shopping, with participants traveling to a variety of local businesses to collect complimentary cookies and other goodies.<\/p>\n<p>The free event sent visitors on a sweet adventure through more than 20 Erie-based shops, while also encouraging families to get a head start on their holiday shopping.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been phenomenal for the day. We had our first cookie takers come in right before the opening time of 11, so people were eager to get started, and it&#8217;s been a consistent flow since we started for the day. It&#8217;s been nice to let people know that you can get your holiday start here at Caf\u00e9 710,&#8221; said Marble Howard, owner of Caf\u00e9 710.<\/p>\n<p>The event was organized by Miracle on State Street as a way to bring people downtown, support small businesses, and celebrate shopping local during the holiday season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you have a sweet tooth, this event was the perfect match. The Erie Cookie Stroll brought people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[131077,11642,136,138,137,20907,12508,131078],"class_list":["post-323425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-cookie-stroll","tag-downtown-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-holiday-shopping","tag-local-businesses","tag-support-small-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323425","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=323425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}