Camden Top Stories
By NEILL BOROWSKI
May 7, 2026
Each year for the last six years, a group of visitors has stealthily stopped in on three Camden public schools with the single purpose of honoring three of the most respected city educators and surprising them as they are in the act of what they do best – teaching students.The moment of surprise is ...
TRENTON — Widespread networks of automated license plate surveillance cameras that create hoards of data used to track motorists are under increasing scrutiny by lawmakers and privacy advocates following their recent use in ICE arrests.Lawmakers in New Jersey and 34 other states have proposed ...
CAMDEN – Nichelle Pace, a member of Flavor Frontier Development Group, the entity trying to bring a proposed four-floor food innovation and retail center that could create new eateries and hundreds of jobs within the city, said interest from potential investors and financial assistance from the ...
TRENTON - You just had a baby and use coupons for formula when the following week your app has a coupon for baby wipes. Magic? Nope — just a smart loyalty program doing exactly what it was designed to do.Now imagine state lawmakers making that illegal.That's what a coalition of New Jersey business ...
CAMDEN – Enrollment growth at Camden's public renaissance and charter schools continues to chip away at the Camden City School District, according to the district budget presentation on Tuesday evening.The district budget presentation projects enrollment of 5,515 in the coming school year, down ...
CAMDEN – For the first time in Uncommon Camden Prep’s twelve-year history, up to 60 students will attend a full-day preschool at Camden Prep’s Mount Ephraim Campus this fall.Camden resident Kayla L'Esperance is one of the parents who has already signed up the new pre-k program where her oldest ...
CAMDEN – Eastside High School senior Elijah Vargas shared a secret: Ever since freshman year, he wanted to sneak into the four-hour, high-energy annual College Signing Day celebration for Camden seniors going to college, the military, the trades or other post-high school learning.This year Vargas, ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – He roamed the Earth thousands of years ago, navigating his massive, elephant-like body through North American forests and using his tusks to strip the bark off trees for his dinner.Even in death, he captivated anyone who saw him: New Jerseyans paid 10 cents apiece to view his big ...
CAMDEN – The Camden Dream Center is taking applications for its free summer program for literacy and Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) for students who will be in kindergarten through eighth grade in the fall.Part of the Children's Defense Fund Freedom School, the STEM program runs ...
CAMDEN – Warmer temperatures mean summer is on the way and, with it, the city's annual recreation program for youth.The summer activities include field trips, sports and swim lessons as well as simply hanging out at one of the municipal pools.Parents of children can get them registered now for the ...
CAMDEN – Jewell Antoine-Johnson got several helping hands in the construction industry as she grew her small Camden-based general contracting business.She said she hopes that now she can be helpful to similar firms just starting out."I look to open doors for others who may not necessarily have the ...
CAMDEN – Loaded with signatures, the final steel beam was placed on the $60-million Rutgers University-Camden Cooper Street Gateway Project on Tuesday.Rutgers officials, government leaders and community members signed the beam in the celebration recognizing the next step in both building new and ...
CAMDEN – ResinTech Inc., the global water filtration company that moved into a new headquarters and manufacturing plant in the city in 2020, wants to continue to expand on its Federal Street property, according to an application to the city Planning Board.The company expanded its plant last year ...
CAMDEN – A few years ago, driving on just about any street in the city was a contest of what would get rattled the most: your car or your bones.Since then, Mayor Victor Carstarphen's administration and Camden County have pushed what is believed to be the most comprehensive road improvement program ...
TRENTON — From betting on elections to controversial wagers on life-and-death events, prediction markets have exploded in popularity. Now, New Jersey lawmakers want to shut some of them down.Lawmakers have introduced two pieces of legislation aimed at regulating prediction markets, platforms like ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Rutgers Class of 2026, assemble!Christopher Markus, a Rutgers alumnus who has sent Thor, Captain America and the other Avengers on a big screen journey to stop Thanos and written other blockbuster films starring Marvel’s most beloved heroes, will be awarded an honorary doctor of ...
CAMDEN – Hoods went up and umbrellas came out on Wednesday, but the rain did not deter more than 100 volunteers from kicking off Mayor Victor Carstarphen's sixth annual series of Camden Cleanup programs at Pyne Poynt Park.Leaves were raked, brush was collected and litter was tossed into trash bags ...
CAMDEN – After community protest and a student walkout, the Camden City School District on Tuesday eliminated its plan to dissolve three magnet high schools and fold them into Camden High School.Parents, students and community members, attending a lengthy Advisory Board of Education meeting in the ...
CAMDEN – George E. Norcross III on Tuesday reflected on Camden's advances over the last few years, but also teased with hints at more big gains in the near future.Norcross, board chairman of the Cooper Health System, said that Cooper – in the midst of a $3 billion expansion – is in discussions with ...
NEWARK - For Joseph Oyelowo, a Great Oaks Legacy Charter School junior, voting in this year’s Newark Board of Education election is more than just ticking boxes and casting a ballot. It is an act that provides a sense of empowerment. “It gives me power, something I never really was able to have,” ...
CAMDEN – The Camden City School District’s new state-appointed superintendent plans to reduce the number of district high schools to two from the current five.Brimm Medical Arts, Big Picture Learning Academy and Creative Arts – all of which operate on the Camden High campus – would be rolled into ...
CAMDEN – Although 11 counties over the last two years went before it, Camden County this year got a state program offering free home visits by a nurse for mothers and newborns.“The first few weeks after birth are critical for both the health of the baby and the parent,” according to the Family ...
CAMDEN – Calling President Donald Trump a "cult leader and traitor," Camden County Commissioner Director Louis Cappelli Jr. on Thursday announced a formal resolution banning ICE agents from county property or employee assistance without a judicial warrant, and accused the federal agents of using ...
CAMDEN – Broccoli. Brussels sprouts. Beer. Shoppers at city-sponsored or co-sponsored farmers markets in the future may be able to drink some types of alcoholic beverages as they fill their bags with produce, according to a proposed city ordinance."We've got to change with the times," the ...
CAMDEN – Law enforcement authorities are investigating a possible fatal assault of a 51-year-old Camden man last week on Clinton Street.The Camden County Police Department and Camden County Prosecutor's Office are seeking more information on the homicide of Thomas Haas Jr., who died from blunt ...
CAMDEN – A citywide baseball league for players ages 9 to 12 announced on Tuesday is intended to complement and support neighborhood-based programs, according to the Camden 12U Baseball League founders.The league is scheduled to begin this summer.“More than a competitive league, this initiative is ...
CAMDEN – A derelict and polluted RCA Victor radio factory building, once seen by a developer as potential residential apartments, will be demolished by Camden County.The Radio Lofts building on Cooper Street across from Johnson Park was turned over to the city of Camden as part of a lawsuit ...
CAMDEN – With an aim of advancing its North Camden development, nonprofit Camden Lutheran Housing Inc. has named city native Tameeka Mason interim executive director until new leadership is found.Mason, executive director of the nonprofit One Camden school registration system, also has been ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Zac Conner has been toiling in the basement of Harvest Moon Brewery & Café since 6 a.m., clad in his tan work boots and elbow-length gloves, scouring kegs and tanks.The people he meets at his kids’ Little League games and neighborhood barbecues who think that the life of an ...
CAMDEN – Sometime after midnight on April 18, 1775 - 250 years ago - Boston silversmith Paul Revere brought a message to the residents of Lexington, Massachusetts: British troops were coming. Sometime after noon on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, a town crier reenactor named Philip Zoebisch performed a ...