Camden Top Stories
By NEILL BOROWSKI
October 6, 2025
CAMDEN – The Coriell Institute for Medical Research, a nonprofit organization founded in Camden 72 years ago, this week will hold a ceremonial groundbreaking for the construction of its new campus. Gov. Phil Murphy and state and local officials are scheduled at the ceremonies Thursday at 11 a.m. at ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Saint Peter’s Healthcare System and Atlantic Healthcare System have agreed to end pursuit of their proposed merger.In a joint statement provided to TAPinto New Brunswick, the 118-year-old hospital off Easton Avenue and the not-for-profit system with more than 550 sites of care, ...
Winslow High School, currently ranked #6 in the state, defeated the #20 Camden High Panthers 26-8 in the latter's homecoming football game on Oct. 4, 2025.Camden High ended the first half with a one-point lead over the Eagles, but Winslow came back to dominate behind quarterback Jalen Parker, who ...
CAMDEN – Invitations for development proposals for the huge expanse of land north of the Ben Franklin Bridge where the Riverfront State Prison was located are expected to go out in the next few weeks, according to Tim Sullivan, CEO of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority.“It’s going to be ...
CAMDEN – A long-vacant former government building in East Camden at the junction of Federal Street and Westfield Avenue will be renovated into what will likely be mixed-use commercial space, according to a Thursday announcement of $5.7 million in state funding for city parks and the building.The ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Seventy-two Narcan kits totaling 144 nasal naloxone doses for opioid overdoses, 18 wound care kits, 40 sex kits with condoms and 12 quart containers for used syringes.Eighteen FitPack kits for syringe disposal, 22 fentanyl testing strips, 24 xylazine testing strips and various ...
SOMERSET — Franklin Township has introduced an ordinance that would prohibit the routine or primary use of on-site generators powered by fossil fuels, petroleum products, or other combustible materials.The measure, introduced this week, establishes strict limits on generator use in non-emergency ...
CAMDEN – The Eastern Metal Recycling (EMR) scrapyard on the waterfront, where smoke from a massive fire in February forced some Camden residents to evacuate their homes, has proposed to erect five water cannons, each with a 200-foot firefighting radius.The EMR Eastern LLC application for ...
CAMDEN – New Jersey's public schools must include historically accurate and culturally relevant instruction in Latino and Hispanic history from kindergarten through grade 12, according to a law signed by Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday.The Latino population in New Jersey surged 27% between 2013 and 2023 ...
The Camden High School Panthers won’t have to leave their uniforms in bins or milk crates after they take on Winslow High in next Saturday’s homecoming football game.Last week, a construction crew was busy installing purple and gold wood lockers in the leased trailer the athletes have been using ...
The Camden High School Panthers bested Rancocas Valley 8-6 in high school football on the Red Devils' turf on September 26, 2025.The Panthers, now 4-1, handed Rancocas Valley its first loss of the season. With only one touchdown per team, Camden High managed to hang onto the lead when Panther ...
EAST BRUNSWICK — The woman convicted of killing New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster in East Brunswick in 1973 has died in Cuba. The Cuban Foreign Ministry announced on Friday the death of Joanne Chesimard, born Joanne Deborah Byron. She had a number of aliases, including Assata Shakur."On ...
CAMDEN – Community advocates turned out at this week's Camden City School District Advisory Board meeting to ask the district to join their campaign to raise $5 million for a new field house at the Camden High School football field.The group, “We Can Do This,” has been working for 15 years to ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – One hundred sixty-five local Black men, women and children who were rounded up and sold to southern plantation owners more than 200 years ago are coming home.Thanks to a nonprofit organization run by a handful of volunteers, plans are moving forward to create a memorial garden to ...
CAMDEN – While the Camden City School District this spring showed year-over-year gains in the percentage of students who passed state testing as graduation-ready, the district continues to be far behind the statewide averages.Public school students must take the New Jersey Graduation Proficiency ...
CAMDEN – Once infamous for murder, the city of Camden recorded no homicides this summer for the first time since the 1970s, the Camden County Police Department reported on Tuesday.The last murder was around June 12, when a Camden man, his wife and son allegedly dismembered a Deptford man after he ...
Since 2014, when the first inlays were placed at the since-demolished Campbell’s Field, the Camden Walk of Fame has been a joyful celebration of the city’s success stories.This year’s honorees were no exception. On the afternoon of September 22, they gathered at Martin Luther King Boulevard across ...
CAMDEN – The city got rid of one jail in 2009 with the demolition of the state prison next to the Ben Franklin Bridge, and now it may shut down another.Discussions are underway to find another home for Camden County’s jail inmates outside the city, which would make way for the demolition of the ...
LITTLE FALLS — The Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center made history on Sunday when 2,358 fans came together at Yogi Berra Stadium to set a Guinness World Record for the Largest Game of Catch Ever.The event featured 1,179 pairs of participants tossing baseballs back and forth on the field at ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Augusto Perez, who has served as foreman as work progressed at Liberty Street Park over the past 11 months, wants everyone, everywhere, to know that as of this afternoon, the park is open.That’s because he has often been interrupted by passers-by asking the same question over the ...
LAWRENCEVILLE — New Jersey governor candidates Jack Ciattarelli and Mikie Sherrill sparred over affordability, taxes and immigration before a raucous audience of 1,600 people at Rider University in Lawrenceville during their first debate on Sunday.Ciattarelli, a 63-year-old Republican and ...
Camden High's Panthers, behind by two scores and with two players out with injury, were in trouble against Holy Spirit on Spirit's home turf on Sept. 19, 2025.But in the second half, everything changed. And ultimately, behind Pleasantville transfer quarterback Ahmad Jones in his first appearance ...
CAMDEN – Cooper University Health Care, which has started a $3-billion expansion in Camden, in the first six months of this year was overwhelmingly the largest employer in the city with a staff larger than the next five largest employers combined, according to a job census.Cooper employed 10,220 in ...
CAMDEN – The city nonprofit It Takes a Village Housing on Saturday will be giving away diapers to parents or caregivers of children from 1 to 3 years old.The event is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Kroc Center, 1865 Harrison Avenue.Besides diapers, the event will offer other supplies, parent ...
NEWARK - A major commitment to improving water quality for Newark and North Jersey residents has been made with $20.5 million in upgrades at the Newark-Pequannock Water Treatment Plant. The investment in the state-of-the-art facility includes filter replacements and a new system to control, operate ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Oscar Garcia admitted he was nervous as he sat in the New Brunswick High School auditorium on Tuesday night, clutching his meticulously prepared stack of notes typed in braille.But Garcia, who hasn’t let shyness nor glaucoma hold him back from becoming a three-sport, National Honor ...
CAMDEN – Brittany Anne Baum, who said she spent part of her youth in Camden, knew she wanted to add something to the textile piece forming in her mind, but was not sure what. “I had these faces,” she said of the two Black women’s faces wearing earrings that would eventually make their way onto a ...
CAMDEN – Raymond L. Lamboy, who was involved with his father's Lamboy Furniture Company in Camden, says the retailer could have benefited from the “matchmaking experience” that he is involved with leading today.For a year, Lamboy – now president and CEO of the LAEDA economic development nonprofit – ...
CAMDEN – Some city residents will be able to cut their electricity costs through a community solar program approved by City Council and Mayor Victor Carstarphen last week.The city will contract with Gabel Associates, a Highland Park energy consulting firm, to participate in the New Jersey Board of ...
The Camden High School Panthers and the Camden Eastside High School Tigers each suffered their first loss of the football season this past weekend. The Panthers were edged out by Shawnee's strong defensive effort 21-20 on their home field on September 12; the next day, the Tigers were defeated 21-6 ...