Category: Port Jervis

Port Jervis Family Keeps Volunteer Firefighting Going

Four years ago, when 16-year-old Briana Moore became a junior volunteer firefighter, her decision shocked her father, David Moore Jr. Moore Jr. had followed in his grandfather and father’s footsteps to become a volunteer firefighter at 16. His then-14-year-old teenage son, David Moore, was well on track to follow in Moore Jr.’s footsteps in due…


Family Longs for Return of Missing Port Jervis Woman

Melissa Hadden used to chase her high-on-drugs daughter out of the house and away from the kids, but now all she wants is for her to come home alive. “I just hope that nothing bad happens to her. I just want my daughter home. The kids want her home,” Hadden told The Epoch Times on…


Port Jervis Asks for Voluntary Water Conservation During Dry Season

The city of Port Jervis is asking residents to use water more efficiently as reservoir levels remain below 50 percent. “It’s a bad dry season; we just had intermittent rains,” the city’s Chief Water Plant Operator Scott Decker told The Epoch Times. “What really worries me is the forecast for rain, because if we don’t…


Middletown Native Devotes to Mission of Finding Missing Persons

Over the five years of searching for missing persons on the streets and in the woods, Domingo Ramos has learned to ask more of himself and less of others. Even so, when the recent news of a Port Jervis young woman’s death got more shares on Facebook than the news of her gone missing, it…


Community Support Swamps Port Jervis Family After House Fire

Boxes of diapers, school supplies, and toys keep piling up at Briana Austin’s grandmother’s house in Port Jervis. People who know the Austin family and strangers from as far as Monroe stopped by to deliver words of comfort and money. Briana’s two younger children, 4-year-old Weston and 2-year-old Autumn, are running around the house, toys…