Camden Top Stories
By NEILL BOROWSKI
August 5, 2025
Este artículo fue traducido con Microsoft Word y servicios de traducción en línea.CAMDEN – El martes por la noche, el Concejo Municipal está programado para comenzar las discusiones sobre el borrador de un Memorando de Entendimiento de cinco años con EMR (USA Holdings) Inc. que requiere que el ...
Leer en españolCAMDEN – City Council on Tuesday evening is scheduled to begin discussions on the draft of a five-year Memorandum of Understanding with EMR (USA Holdings) Inc. that requires the metal scrapyard to change the way it operates, add enhanced fire-suppression systems and donate to the ...
CAMDEN – Called a “micro-community of wellness,” the new Oliver Station building – a $24-million combination of affordable housing and health care at the edge of the Ferry Avenue PATCO Speedline station parking lot – will officially open this Thursday, Aug. 7.The development, a joint effort of ...
New Jersey residents are seeing it all this summer. Bouts of extreme heat, downpours of torrential rain, and now a 3.0 magnitude earthquake shook the state's northern and central counties on Saturday night.The earthquake registered 3.0 on the Richter scale. Its epicenter was near Hasbrouck Heights ...
CAMDEN – A massive scrapyard fire in February caused by a damaged lithium-ion battery meant not only millions in damages for owner EMR (USA Holdings) Inc., but also a loss of public confidence by residents and elected officials.The dense black smoke forced an estimated 100 neighborhood residents to ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – One group of kids made cards inscribed with warm wishes for seniors.Another group filled bags with socks, toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap and T-shirts to be distributed to homeless people.And yet another spent time filling bags with trash and debris collected from a nearby park.These ...
CAMDEN – Zamijah Shakeur-Tompkins, who began programming on her family computer as a young child, later joined the nonprofit Camden Dream Center as a city middle-school student to learn several coding languages.In her early work on the old computer at home, she said she discovered a “whole world ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – This was the $177 million question for Keli Zinn, who was introduced Wednesday as the new Rutgers Athletic Director: Can the athletics department, with its large operating budget, for once become profitable or at least self-sustaining?It’s been a question long pondered by New Jersey ...
VIDEO: Two men moved construction waste from a lot at South Seventh and Chestnut streets to the side of the street in March in full view of CCPD surveillance cameras. Police arrived and charged them under the illegal dumping law.Video Credits: Provided | Camden County Police Department | July 29, ...
CAMDEN – In the roughly 50 years that LaUnique African American Book Store & Cultural Center owner Larry Miles has called Camden and the surrounding area home, he has met many, many people. But Lamont “Napalm” Dixon, a professional writer, performer, storyteller and frequent collaborator with ...
CAMDEN – From afar, the drone's camera focused on Cooper University Hospital construction, zooming in on a backhoe until the operator's face was clear during a demonstration at Camden County Police Department headquarters this week.Click here: CCPD Drone view of Camden.Similar airborne drones were ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Dr. Dale Caldwell, whose service to the city includes long stints on the New Brunswick Board of Education and New Brunswick Housing Authority, has been selected as running mate for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill.Sherrill, who will take on Republican Jack ...
BERKELEY HEIGHTS — Marianne Middlebrook of Berkeley Heights, recently crowned Ms. Wheelchair New Jersey 2025, will head to Michigan next month to compete for the national title of Ms. Wheelchair America.Born with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), Middlebrook has used a wheelchair her entire life.
CAMDEN – Kenneth W. Reddick, a 29-year-old Camden resident, has been arrested for two shootings – one on Sunday night in Camden and the other early Monday morning in Gloucester Township, according to the Camden County Prosecutor's Office.Last Sunday, July 20, the Camden County Police Department at ...
CAMDEN – Because rain is forecast for the weekend, the annual Camden Peace Games Basketball Tournament is being moved indoors to the Rutgers-Camden Athletic and Fitness Center at 201 Linden Street.“This free, co-ed basketball tournament is open to local youth as a way to leverage sports as a ...
This article is part of a series sponsored by the Camden Education Fund about remarkable students of the Class of 2025 from some of the city’s high schools.CAMDEN – There is an old saying that goes, “Love what you do and you will never work a day in your life.” Recent KIPP Cooper Norcross High ...
CAMDEN – “Healing Together,” a free, community-based support group sponsored by Camden County and the Genesis Counseling Center, will meet every Monday evening in Collingswood.“Healing Together supports community wellness and prevention by creating a space where individuals can openly navigate ...
CAMDEN – The owner of a storage warehouse on South Eighth Street is scheduled to appear before the Camden Zoning Board of Adjustment for permission to build a 6,684-square-foot addition.Florence Holding Group LLC of Lumberton, Burlington County, operates a 44,110-square-foot storage warehouse ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – The Great Migration, when millions of African Americans journeyed north and midwest from the Jim Crow South, and its synergy with blues music is the inspiration behind New Brunswick artist Martryce Roach’s latest solo exhibition.“Patterns: People in Transition,” showcasing 30 new ...
This article is part of a series sponsored by the Camden Education Fund about remarkable students of the Class of 2025 from some of the city’s high schools.CAMDEN – Shaleah Navarro said the best part about high school was the people she interacted with daily."The people) make it fun,” Navarro, a ...
CAMDEN – Wiggins Park Marina, a Camden County-operated facility adjacent to the Freedom Mortgage Pavilion near the Delaware River, reopened on June 19 after being closed for nearly a yearlong, $5.5 million renovation, a Camden County spokesperson said. TAPinto Camden reported in March 2024 that the ...
CAMDEN – One of the city's busiest streets will be disrupted over the next three to four weeks, but the result will be a newly paved surface.Ferry Avenue, between Broadway and the overpass of I-676 and from Mulford Avenue to the Black Horse Pike, will be milled and paved, Camden County, which ...
MONTVILLE - The gavel has been passed to the next president of the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police (NJSACOP) during a recent ceremony at the police chief’s 113th-annual Training Conference & Police/Security Expo in Atlantic City.Andrew Caggiano, the chief of the Montville ...
This is an article in a series sponsored by the Camden Education Fund about remarkable students of the Class of 2025 from some of the city’s high schools.CAMDEN – Damian Irizarry said he made a bold prediction in the commencement speech he gave as valedictorian of his eighth-grade class. "I told ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Dr. Dale Caldwell, a lifelong New Brunswick resident and renaissance man who has been an entrepreneur, author, pastor and university president during his long and varied professional career, might soon be entering the political arena.Caldwell is on a short list as Democratic ...
The NJ Department of Human Services (DHS) is trying to help people find family, friends and neighbors who may be detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).DHS is encouraging New Jersey residents to use the ICE locator website to find out where people are being detained. The ICE ...
NEWARK - Trash and recycling have been piling up over the past couple of weeks to the point of it extending into the street and sometimes blocking morning traffic, as the city’s sanitation division experiences delays in pickup. Newark residents, amid temperatures in the 90s and a heat index of up ...
CAMDEN – With temperatures reaching into the 90s, a dive into a swimming pool is a great way to beat the heat. As of this week, Camden residents can get that relief: the city officially opened its two public pools on Thursday.The pool at the North Camden Community Center at North Sixth and Erie ...
Editor's Note: This article is part of a series sponsored by the Camden Education Fund about remarkable students of the Class of 2025 from some of the city’s high schools.CAMDEN – Annia Cloud said she spent a lot of her high school years advocating for and helping out others, whether it be through ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – The Board of Education is seeking to rename an elementary school that bears the name of Woodrow Wilson – the 28th president whose racist legacy prompted Princeton University, the Camden School District and others to expunge his name in recent years.Yesenia Medina-Hernandez, vice ...