Port Jervis News

The temperature was well above 90 degrees, the air was humid, and there was barely a breeze on Memorial Day morning.

As Port Jervis seeks more commercial life, two start-up businesses nevertheless find themselves entangled in zoning issues, key topics at this week's Common Council meeting.

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Most who drown in the Upper Delaware are males 18 to 30. Tyler Jacob, of Milanville, Pa., on the New York side of the Delaware River.

The City of Port Jervis declared St. Mary's Little Lambs Early Childhood Learning Center as its "Business of the Week" this week.

A decision on whether the Bon Secours Community Hospital maternity ward stays open or closes will come from the New York state Department of Health by the end of the month, according to an e-mail community activist Jim McMahon received from Keith J. McCarthy, acting director of the health department's Bureau of Project Management Division of Health ... (more)

The Hub at the Port Jervis Free Library will be hosting Michael Worden, the Ghost Detective from the Paranormal Police Headquarters , for a second program from 6:30-8 p.m. June 11.

A suspended Sullivan County Sheriff's corporal was released on Wednesday after serving 30 days in the Orange County Jail on a second drunk driving conviction but still faces a third misdemeanor DWI in Pennsylvania.

The mother of a former Port Jervis family that lost a daughter in the Pan Am 103 crash in 1988 says the bomber of the plane should have been left in jail to die.

Volunteers are needed Saturday to assist with an inventory of ash trees in public areas within the city of Port Jervis.

To keep plans for a Port Jervis whitewater park afloat and surging forward, Adam Hubbard, chair of the whitewater park committee, called Mayor Russell Potter to set up a meeting.

Nearly 90 women gathered recently at the Erie Trackside Manor in Port Jervis for Bon Secours Community Hospital's Ladies Night Out.

Port Jervis lost 26 people to drug overdoses last year, while drug desperation also drove up burglary, robbery and fraud, Police Chief Bill Worden told 70 people attending a panel discussion, "Battling the Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Epidemic," at Deerpark Reformed Church last week.

Metro-North says it is not abandoning the idea of extending rail service to Stewart International Airport, and will concentrate on improving service on the Port Jervis line with or without such a link.

A local non-profit is asking for volunteers to help inventory ash trees at risk for infestation by an invasive beetle responsible for widespread decimation of the species.

A local non-profit is asking for volunteers to help inventory ash trees at risk for infestation by an invasive beetle responsible for widespread decimation of the species.

On Tuesday, the Port Jervis School District will hold its annual budget vote and school board election.

Whether sculpting a tree-man, printing a peacock, painting a fish or sketching a self-portrait, the pivotal lesson for Port Jervis High School art students has been to trust what they see, says Bess Moran, high school art curriculum coordinator, preparing for the student show at UpFront Exhibition Space Saturday.

In Orange County Court in Goshen on Friday afternoon--Todd Sinclair, 27, looks back at the crowd after the jury found Sinclair guilty of murder in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon 2nd, and reckless endangerment 1st: in the 2011 shooting death of 21-year-old Randy Kizer in Port Jervis.

The strip mall on Pike Street in Port Jervis has been closed since last year, but the developer who bought the mall for $1.68 million last week has kindled city officials' visions of a resurgence of commerce on the site.