Port Jervis Residents Celebrate Grand Opening of East Main Elementary School

Port Jervis Superintendent John Bell (L) introduces family members of past middle school principal Thomas Hobbey at the grand opening of a new school in Port Jervis, N.Y., on Aug. 31, 2024. Cara Ding/The Epoch Times

Hundreds of residents and school-aged children showed up for the grand opening ceremony of East Main Elementary School in Port Jervis, New York, on Aug. 31.

Housed in a renovated and expanded former middle school building on Main Street, the new elementary school is part of the school district’s largest capital project in its history, according to district superintendent John Bell.