Janis Osborne was born in Hartford, Conn. in 1943. She grew up in Port Jervis,
N.Y. and graduated from Port Jervis High School in 1961 and attended SUNY Orange
in Middletown, N.Y. She has three children from a previous marriage, Thomas,
Michael and Megan and 13 grandchildren. She is the editor of The Gazette, a
weekly newspaper and has received an Associated Press Award for Column Writing
and two New York State Publisher’s Association Awards, one for Community
Service Writing and one for News Reporting. She is married to Peter Osborne,
director of the Minisink Valley Historical Society and author of two books about
the Civilian Conservation Corps at High Point State Park, N.J..
Date Last Revised: 02/14/2003
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