{"id":834377,"date":"2026-09-02T17:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/834377\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T17:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:40:17","slug":"new-outdoor-fitness-courts-open-in-port-jervis-and-middletown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/834377\/","title":{"rendered":"New outdoor fitness courts open in Port Jervis and Middletown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIDDLETOWN\/PORT JERVIS \u2013 State Senator James Skoufis and city officials from Middletown and Port Jervis held ribbon cuttings on Monday for new outdoor fitness courts.<\/p>\n<p>Each was paid for through a $250,000 state grant secured by Skoufis as well as funding from MVP Health Care and National Fitness Campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The senator said now more than ever six years after being cooped up indoors during the pandemic, it is important for people to exercise and enjoy recreation, particularly outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot everyone can get to a gym, not everyone can pay for a membership, not everyone wants to be indoors when being physically fit,\u201d he said. \u201cThese spaces have really become important community spaces. They are free. They are open to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fitness courts let adults of all abilities ages 14 and older to get a complete workout using seven exercise stations.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIDDLETOWN\/PORT JERVIS \u2013 State Senator James Skoufis and city officials from Middletown and Port Jervis held ribbon cuttings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[337,97,353158],"class_list":["post-834377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-outdoor-fitness-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}