Port Jervis News

The Tri-State Chamber of Commerce held its Installation of Officers Dinner & Annual Members' Meeting on Jan.

At the Tri-State Pregnancy Center in Matamoras, pregnant women arrive in cars and on foot, with and without appointments, mostly from Port Jervis, N.Y., according to director Marie Biel.

At a recent meeting of the City of Port Jervis Code Committee, Councilman-at-large Kelly Decker fielded suggestions, considerations and reservations in response to his proposal to repair dilapidated houses and infrastructure with a Habitat-for-Humanity-style program run by the city.

Ian Finan, of Port Jervis, N.Y., was arrested and charged with criminal mischief after he was suspected of driving a car into a parked vehicle in Andover Township Dec.

Why are some women choosing to leave Port Jervis and deliver their babies at hospitals other than Bon Secours Community Hospital? Upon hearing this at a community forum on the possible closing of the Bon Secours maternity ward, Caren Fairweather, executive director of the Maternal Infant Services Network, decided to find out how women choose where ... (more)

It's been seven years since the night her 38-year-old brother Brian Taylor, walking north on Route 209 in the Town of Deerpark, was fatally struck by a vehicle.

A joint investigation by the Pike County District Attorney's Office and Eastern Pike Regional and Port Jervis police led to the Thursday night seizure of 782 bags of heroin from a Port Jervis, N.Y., residence and the arrest of a woman in Pike County.

David Church, Orange County planning commissioner, says the preliminary plan for a whitewater park in Port Jervis is "very feasible." The preliminary plan, paid for by a $10,000 county grant, was described this week by Shane Sigle, project engineer for Recreation Engineering and Planning, in Boulder, Colo.

Since then, he has worked as a martial-arts instructor training police forces, and he is now a financial adviser with an office in the 120-year-old restored train station, the Erie Depot, where one of his forefathers had been the first licensed electrician in Port Jervis.

The Business and Professional Women's Club will hold its annual "Stars of Tomorrow" Tricky Tray fundraiser March 10 at Port Jervis High School.

What do teenagers call walking on the NJ Transit tracks that crisscross Bergen County? "Shortcut" is what 450 Park Ridge High School students called it at the start of the new rail-safety program that NJ Transit rolled out in November to counter a spike in fatalities among young "trespassers." With 314 grade crossings on 11 rail lines, NJ Transit ... (more)

A Chicago-based bank with five Illinois locations may soon open a branch on West Main Street in Port Jervis.

Councilman-at-large Kelly Decker has watched the abandonment and decline of buildings around Port Jervis, and one house in particular.

Tafari Gordon, 32, of Port Jervis, was arraigned Tuesday on charges that he sexually assaulted two women while they were incapacitated.

City police are trying to identify who shot out at least eight windows of businesses on Jersey Avenue Monday night.

A state panel that's expected to propose new lines for New York's Senate and Assembly districts this week failed to release its maps on Wednesday, prolonging the suspense about how redistricting might shape this year's elections and the balance of power in Albany.

Tafari Gordon, 32, of Port Jervis was arraigned Tuesday on charges he sexually assaulted two women while they were incapacitated.

Metro-North Railroad recorded the second highest ridership in its history last year with 82 million rides, a 1.4 percent increase over 2010.

City police arrested a Sparrowbush man Friday and charged him with burglarizing a residence in the Second Ward.

A Paterson, N.J. man was arrested Thursday and charged with selling crack cocaine.