{"id":43939,"date":"2025-11-25T06:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T06:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/43939\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T06:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T06:52:13","slug":"scranton-flips-switch-on-annual-holiday-light-show-at-nay-aug-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/43939\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton flips switch on annual holiday light show at Nay Aug Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">*<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The holiday lights display at Nay Aug Park a previous Christmas. (CHAD SEBRING\/STAFF PHOTO)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">*<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lights at Nay Aug Park in a previous season. (Lackawanna County Visitors Bureau)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">*<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The holiday lights display at Nay Aug Park in Scranton (CHAD SEBRING\/STAFF PHOTO)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">*<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The holiday lights display at Nay Aug Park in Scranton in a previous season. (CHAD SEBRING\/STAFF PHOTO<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Show Caption<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">1 of 4<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The holiday lights display at Nay Aug Park a previous Christmas. (CHAD SEBRING\/STAFF PHOTO)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Expand<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">*<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">*<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">*<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">*<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">*<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">*<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Show Caption<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">1 of 6<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Expand<\/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":21931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[6075,7252,178,180,179,6074],"class_list":["post-43939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-jim-lockwood","tag-nay-aug-park","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-staff-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43939","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=43939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}