Camden Top Stories
By JANEL "JAYCEE" MILLER
May 29, 2025
CAMDEN – Long before Woodrow Wilson High School was renamed Eastside High School, and long, long before workers began hauling trash from the site in preparation of the building’s demolition, Yocontalie “Connie” Jackson ('76), said Doris Brooks, a music teacher, was skeptical about starting a school ...
CAMDEN – When the Camden Health and Athletic Association was formed in 2016, the goal was to give the city the “best-in-class” youth sports organization in South Jersey, one of the nonprofit's founders, George E. Norcross III, said on Wednesday.A new, revitalized CHAA will make sure “that every ...
CAMDEN – Marvin Samson recalled growing up in the Strawberry Mansion section of Philadelphia as the son of financially struggling immigrant parents.As a young man, Samson worked for a pharmacist and explained that physicians at the time would write “PP” on prescriptions, signaling “poor person" ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – No sooner had the sculpture of the jogger in vintage 1980s tracksuit and matching Nike running shoes been lowered from the delivery truck to the sidewalk than a woman strolling down Albany Street did a double-take. A man in a hoodie did the same thing a few seconds later. So did a ...
CAMDEN – Young Camden athletes participating in city sports are due to get a boost on Wednesday as local leaders and nonprofit executives relaunch the 9-year-old Camden Health and Athletic Association.CHAA, which was created to expand access to youth sports in Camden, got its start with more than ...
On May 23, 2025, students from five Camden high schools spent a cool, rainy night making memories at two proms: one at the Adventure Aquarium for almost 200 students from Camden High, Creative Arts, Brimm Medical Arts, and Big Picture Academy, and a smaller, but no less festive celebration for ...
CAMDEN – The latest expansion of Camden's health care industry will be celebrated Wednesday as Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital presents its plans for a $500 million renovation and expansion at the 1600 Haddon Avenue complex.The event also commemorates the 75th anniversary of Lourdes and will ...
NEW BRUNSWICK - When four first-year students launched a research project to tackle a social issue on campus in 2022, they were shocked to learn that nearly a third of Rutgers-New Brunswick students were identified as food insecure in a basic needs study.“We were very surprised because we didn’t ...
For New Jersey Assemblywoman Melinda Kane, every day is Memorial Day.“Every day reminds me of my son, and the life he did not get to live,” she said at a ceremony to mark the occasion at Camden’s Harleigh Cemetery on Friday.Kane’s son, Jeremy, she said, “died a hero” in Afghanistan in 2010 while ...
Newark, along with its mayor, City Council and council president, are being sued by the Department of Justice for alleged sanctuary city violations. The Justice Department's civil lawsuit, which was filed Thursday, claims the governments of Newark, Hoboken, Jersey City and Paterson unlawfully ...
CAMDEN – Chemistry and physics are not typically on the schedules of pre-teenagers. However, those courses are part of the regular schedule at Mastery East Camden Middle, where a science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics program teaching fifth through eighth graders in an innovative ...
CAMDEN – Zaida Mercado and 12 other 2024 graduates of Camden high schools have completed a program that propels them on a career path in the region's growing health care industry.The Brimm Medical Arts High School graduate completed training as a Certified Medical Assistant through the CMA Pathways ...
CAMDEN – With a sigh, Iris (Irizarry) Roscoe, a massage therapist and national account manager for The Chef's Warehouse, acknowledged that the place she called her “safe haven” during her teenage years will not be saved from a wrecking ball. “Between peer leadership, softball and cheerleading ...
WESTFIELD — Francesca Mani, a Westfield teen who advocates for stronger AI laws, was with President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump when the president signed the “Take it Down” bill into law on Monday.The new law bans nonconsensual online publication of sexually explicit images and ...
Este artículo fue traducido con Microsoft Word y servicios de traducción en línea.CAMDEN – Al Dyer miró a través del lote en River Avenue y East State Street el jueves y al edificio que pronto será demolido, parte del proyecto de viviendas Ablett Village, de 82 años de antigüedad.Pensando por un ...
Leer en españolCAMDEN – Al Dyer looked across the lot at River Avenue and East State Street on Thursday and at the soon-to-be-demolished building, part of the 82-year-old Ablett Village housing project.Thinking for a moment, Dyer recalled he spent ninth grade in the building block immediately ...
PATERSON - A standing ovation filled City Hall this week as local officials honored Salman Chowdhury, a Paterson native who has been accepted to five Ivy League universities and will attend Harvard this fall on a full scholarship.In an emotional ceremony led by Councilman-at-Large Md Forid Uddin ...
ATLANTIC CITY - The New Jersey Conference of Mayors marked a major milestone Tuesday with a celebratory ribbon-cutting to open its 60th Annual Spring Conference at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.The Spring Conference is NJCM’s premier event, bringing together local leaders, policy experts and ...
U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver appeared before federal Magistrate Judge Stacey Adams on Wednesday afternoon after being charged with assaulting a Homeland Security Investigations agent outside an immigrant detention center in Newark about 10 days ago. McIver was allowed to appear virtually from ...
CAMDEN – When the nation mobilized for World War II, industries turned to manufacturing products for the war effort. In Camden, the surge in war production meant a need for new housing for workers and their families. Construction of Camden's Ablett Village began in 1942 and the first 56 families – ...
CAMDEN – Joyful residents, coaches and city officials stood in front of new playground equipment and a well-outfitted baseball diamond last September at Elijah Perry Park in the Centerville neighborhood.The longtime park, where some of the local officials at the ceremony recalled playing when they ...
CAMDEN – Matthew Diefendorf, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and Camden County resident, said he had heard from some of his comrades over the years that some offices that claim to help veterans “had not been there" in times of need. Now, after filing a compensation claim with a significant amount of ...
A federal prosecutor has dropped Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka's misdemeanor charge of trespassing in connection with a high-profile incident last week outside an immigrant detention center, but has charged U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver with assault and interference in that same scuffle.Baraka, a ...
CAMDEN – A leading municipal credit rating agency in April maintained Camden's investment rating as A and stable – the same rating the city got last year and the highest in more than 50 years.“Camden's general creditworthiness consists of improving economic and financial momentum over the past ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – William Tate IV rolled into New Iberia, La., population 28,555 by last count, in a giant purple bus last year to check out the country’s oldest rice mill that’s so revered it stands out even in sugarcane country.Tate, the then-president of Louisiana State University who was on a ...
The NJ Transit Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) strike has ended after a three-day rail stoppage, but trains won’t be running until tomorrow. Gov. Phil Murphy and NJ Transit President and CEO Kris Kolluri announced on Sunday night that they had reached a tentative agreement ...
NEW BRUNSWICK - William Tait IV has been tapped as the 22nd president of Rutgers University, concluding an exhaustive search that began in January, it was announced Monday morning. Tate has been the president of the Louisiana State University system since 2021, when he became the first Black to ...
For the 25th year, Camden City Creative Arts High School dance students performed in their annual, end-of-the-year showcase, “Highlights: Herstory in Motion” on May 16, 2025. The 29 students performed 16 pieces under the direction of dance teacher LaCeda Nelson in front of a cheering crowd of ...
PENNSAUKEN – Sarah Geiger, the senior director of programs and services at the Food Bank of South Jersey, says that in her roughly 14 years in the industry she has never experienced anything like the Trump administration’s funding cuts to programs within the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “I don't ...
PISCATAWAY – Tom Maniscalco, an 85-year-old engineering student who on Sunday became the oldest graduate in Rutgers’ 258-year history, had just given the traditional Red Lion Bell a mighty ring when he paused to offer some advice to his younger classmates.You – yes, each one of you! - can change ...