Port Jervis News

Robert Robar, 52, of Valley Stream, is charged with first-degree reckless endangerment after police said he mistakenly shot a fellow hunter he thought was a deer.

Tuesday Port Jervis school district residents will go to the polls to vote on a proposed $14.6 million building renovation project and a proposition to establish a new 10-year capital reserve fund to offset the costs of a future school building.

The teacher charged last month with raping a teenage girl in Sullivan County now has been charged with having unlawful contact with the student victim.

Attorney Gerald E. Gray has opened Port Jervis Legal Clinic at 39 Front St., Port Jervis, N.Y., Suite 2D.

Have you ever watched a Czech film? Despite its overwhelming quality, Czech cinema is quite overlooked in the global scheme, possibly because the country sees a handful of major releases each year.

Easter Seals New York, the leading provider of autism services nationally, honored Congressional expert on autism and disabilities, Representative Eliot Engel, last night at the 2009 Easter Seals New York Annual Meeting in Westchester, New York.

In a dazzling performance of leaps and maneuvers, the World Famous Lipizzaner Stallions will bring their much-acclaimed show to the New Hope Farms Equestrian Park in Port Jervis on Tuesday.

Barbara Conklin, left, of Middletown, and her sister, Betty Jo Stone, right, of Port Jervis Christine Falcone of Troy Kristen Miller of Greenville Detail shot of boots belonging to Rachel Kuen, left, and her boyfriend Joseph Cool, right, both of Minisink, Orange County Rachel Kuen, left, and her boyfriend Joseph Cool, right, both of Minisink, ...

Katie, Jake and their dog, Cooper, recently jumped off the pages of their book "The Undercover Kids' Holland Adventure: The Trunk in the Attic " and visited about 1,000 children at Anna S. Kuhl Elementary School in Port Jervis.

Five Orange County government employees could lose their jobs because of state-ordered changes in a program that gives food vouchers and nutrition advice to mothers with infants or young children.

PORT JERVIS The City of Port Jervis experienced the same phenomenon as most other local governments in the region with a swing to the Republican Party in the general election.

Planning to attend the Yankees victory parade in Manhattan? With street closures, no parking and the usual congestion, driving in is a nonstarter.

An overgrown, forgotten stretch of the historic Delaware & Hudson Canal could soon get new life.

GOSHEN Orange County Administrative Officer and economic development chief James O'Donnell is hopeful that Kolmar will stay in Port Jervis and not move its cosmetics manufacturing operation elsewhere.

Although he is considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, Stephen Crane's life and career were cut short before his 30th birthday.

Political Experience: two terms OC Legislator 2002- Present, Deerpark Supervisor 1994-95, Councilman 1990-93. Work: Retired after 35 years with AHRC, a private, not-for-profit agency serving the developmentally disabled in Orange County.

Work experience: Principal Broker, Barrett Realty Group, Newburgh, NY Education: NYS Regents Diploma, Pine Bush High School, 1977; Associates of Arts, SUNY Orange, 1979; Bachelors of Business Administration, CUNY Baruch College, 1986 Family: Daughter, Victoria Jenna, 10 years old.

The Tusten Historical Society is celebrating Archives Month with an open house at 2 p.m. Sunday at Western Sullivan Public Library's Tusten-Cochecton Branch, 198 Bridge St., Narrowsburg.

Orange and Sullivan county residents with new or gently used coats and other winter apparel to donate to the needy can bring them to their local police stations for an annual, weeklong collection that starts Saturday.

Authorities raided a home early Wednesday on Orange Street and recovered numerous drugs, a firearm, cash and counterfeit currency.