Matamoras News

Here are the details of the canoe float trip down the Delaware River to visit the New York/Pennsylvania/New Jersey Tri-State marker on Friday, July 31 during the 2009 Highpointers Convention at High Point, New Jersey.

The 2009 Highpointers Convention kicks off at 4 pm, Wednesday, July 29. with a bar-b-que and East/West softwall game at the farm home of convention co-host Steve Urbanski at 3130 Church Road, Mountain Top, Pennsylvania.

This year's early summer days have brought plenty of rain to Pennsylvania's Pike County regions of Matamoras, Milford, Westfall and their neighboring Tri-state communities.

A volunteer fire station is seen Monday in Westfall Township, not far from the hillside property where years ago David Katz had planned his Rosetown Trail development.

There has been an outpouring of community support for the upcoming Country Ark Farm Family Frolic, scheduled for June 20th at the Riverview Inn in Matamoras, PA.

Pike County District Attorney Ray Tonkin announced the following criminal sentences were issued by Pike County President Judge Joseph F. Kameen: Thomas H. Dailey, age 49, of Port Jervis, New York, was sentenced to pay a fine of $500.00, be incarcerated in the Pike County Correctional Facility for a period of 6 months to 1 year and have his driver's ...

There are reports of a structure fire in Milford, PA. Several departments were being called to the scene.

The Annual Safety Day held at Airport Park on Sunday May 31, 2009 was a great success.

The Pike County Chamber of Commerce's Business Expo will take place 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 18.

On Wednesday, in a Memorial Day tribute, Delaware Valley Elementary School in Milford, Pa.

A controversy that's been brewing in one Dauphin County community for months, is officially on-hold. On Monday night, members of the Halifax Township Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to table any further discussion of Act 537 , indefinitely.

A Port Jervis police officer prevented a man from jumping off the Delaware River bridge that connects the city and Matamoras, Pa., Saturday afternoon, police said.

On April 10, officials in Westfall Township, PA filed for bankruptcy protection, saying the township is unable to pay even a portion of a $20 million judgment against it.

Nathan Krape, 23, of Matamoras, will be sentenced at a future date in Pike County Court after pleading guilty to vehicular homicide while driving under the influence in the June 2007 death of passenger Danielle Carman, 21, of Dingmans Ferry, in Sunrise Lakes, Dingman Township.

A man from Pike County pleaded guilty to causing a deadly crash two years ago. Nathan Krape, 23, of Matamoras entered a guilty plea Thursday in Pike County court.

Flames can be seen from West End Beach in Port Jervis as fires burned along the Delaware River on the Matamoras side of the water.

Motorists are warned of possible delays while driving on I-84 in Pennsylvania this week due to repair work.

Rudy Wassmer bought a bullhorn for $10 a few years ago and on Wednesday afternoon, on the Pennsylvania side of the Port Jervis-Matamoras Bridge, he had a chance to use it.

Several communities in the region will hold Tax Day Tea Parties protesting federal pork barrel legislation, bailouts and the stimulus package in the late afternoon and early evening Wednesday - the day income taxes are due.

Local opponents of PPL's Susquehanna-Roseland power line have spent the past year trying to figure out how they can stop the proposed project.