{"id":43529,"date":"2025-11-24T22:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/43529\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T22:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:04:12","slug":"scranton-flips-switch-on-annual-holiday-light-show-at-nay-aug-park-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/43529\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton flips switch on annual holiday light show at Nay Aug Park \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON \u2014 The Electric City\u2019s elaborate annual holiday light show at Nay Aug Park will kick off Monday, Nov. 24, 2205, at 5 p.m. and continue nightly into early January. The city last year used a contractor to set up the many lighted displays, but this year returned to having city employees do that work, Scranton Mayor Paige Gebhardt Cognetti said recently. The megawatt, drive-thru spectacle that lights up the nights at the city\u2019s largest park annually draws thousands of spectators.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The holiday lights display at Nay Aug Park a previous...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The holiday lights display at Nay Aug Park a previous Christmas. (CHAD SEBRING\/STAFF PHOTO)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Lights at Nay Aug Park in a previous season. (Lackawanna...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/STT-L-BESTBETS-1127-01-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lights at Nay Aug Park in a previous season.  (Lackawanna County Visitors Bureau)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The holiday lights display at Nay Aug Park in Scranton...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/STT-L-NAYAUG-1129-03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The holiday lights display at Nay Aug Park in Scranton  (CHAD SEBRING\/STAFF PHOTO)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The holiday lights display at Nay Aug Park in Scranton...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/STT-L-NAYAUG-1129-02-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The holiday lights display at Nay Aug Park in Scranton in a previous season. (CHAD SEBRING\/STAFF PHOTO\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 4<\/p>\n<p>The holiday lights display at Nay Aug Park a previous Christmas. (CHAD SEBRING\/STAFF PHOTO)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Scranton will flip the switch Monday, Nov. 24, 2025 at...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Scranton will flip the switch Monday, Nov. 24, 2025 at 5 p.m. on the annual holiday light show at Nay Aug Park. One of the displays is a replica of the iconic \u201cScranton, The Electric City\u201d sign, shown here on Monday, Nov. 24, 2025. (JIM LOCKWOOD \/ STAFF PHOTO)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Scranton will flip the switch Monday, Nov. 24, 2025 at...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/STT-L-LIGHTS-1125_4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scranton will flip the switch Monday, Nov. 24, 2025 at 5 p.m. on the annual holiday light show at Nay Aug Park. (JIM LOCKWOOD \/ STAFF PHOTO)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Scranton will flip the switch Monday, Nov. 24, 2025 at...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/STT-L-LIGHTS-1125_6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scranton will flip the switch Monday, Nov. 24, 2025 at 5 p.m. on the annual holiday light show at Nay Aug Park. (JIM LOCKWOOD \/ STAFF PHOTO)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Scranton will flip the switch Monday, Nov. 24, 2025 at...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/STT-L-LIGHTS-1125_3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scranton will flip the switch Monday, Nov. 24, 2025 at 5 p.m. on the annual holiday light show at Nay Aug Park. (JIM LOCKWOOD \/ STAFF PHOTO)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Scranton will flip the switch Monday, Nov. 24, 2025 at...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/STT-L-LIGHTS-1125-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scranton will flip the switch Monday, Nov. 24, 2025 at 5 p.m. on the annual holiday light show at Nay Aug Park. One of the displays is a replica of the iconic \u201cScranton, The Electric City\u201d sign, shown here on Monday, Nov. 24, 2025. (JIM LOCKWOOD \/ STAFF PHOTO)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Scranton will flip the switch Monday, Nov. 24, 2025 at...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/STT-L-LIGHTS-1125_5-rotated-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scranton will flip the switch Monday, Nov. 24, 2025 at 5 p.m. on the annual holiday light show at Nay Aug Park. (JIM LOCKWOOD \/ STAFF PHOTO)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 6<\/p>\n<p>Scranton will flip the switch Monday, Nov. 24, 2025 at 5 p.m. on the annual holiday light show at Nay Aug Park. One of the displays is a replica of the iconic \u201cScranton, The Electric City\u201d sign, shown here on Monday, Nov. 24, 2025. (JIM LOCKWOOD \/ STAFF PHOTO)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON \u2014 The Electric City\u2019s elaborate annual holiday light show at Nay Aug Park will kick off Monday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[182,139,178,180,179,181],"class_list":{"0":"post-43529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-local-news","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-scranton","11":"tag-scranton-headlines","12":"tag-scranton-news","13":"tag-top-stories-stt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43529","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=43529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}