Camden Top Stories
By TAPINTO NEW BRUNSWICK
May 17, 2025
NEW BRUNSWICK – Wear comfortable shoes, apply sunscreen and, most importantly, get grandma and grandpa in the car early and hit the road. And, have a great time.That’s just a few tips from Rutgers officials who are expecting more than 30,000 people to descend on SHI Stadium on Sunday for the ...
NEW JERSEY - NJ Transit has an alternate service plan in place, should the rail strike continue.The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), which represents roughly 460 engineers, went on strike at 12:01 a.m. Friday, which was the deadline for a contract renewal between NJ Transit ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – At Steakhouse 85, extra wait staff has been added to the schedule, the dry-aged steaks are ready to be rubbed, and special chocolate treats spelling “congratulations” have been ordered.Anticipation is running high at this restaurant at 85 Church St. and several others across ...
CAMDEN – When ATV or dirt-bike drivers buzz the city's streets or parks, the illegal activity is often difficult for police to control because riders can quickly disappear.Late this summer, the Camden County Police Department may be watching from far above without the driver knowing he is being ...
Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka appeared in federal court for a status conference on Thursday morning following his arrest last week when he was handcuffed and charged with federal trespassing at an immigrant detention center. A status conference is a court-ordered meeting, often held before a trial, at ...
CAMDEN – Since 2014, Joseph's House of Camden has provided shelter, food and social services at 555 Atlantic Avenue to people who have found themselves homeless. But officials acknowledged a gap: The “low barrier” shelter shut down between 3 and 8 p.m., meaning some clients were exposed to getting ...
Perhaps there is a silver lining for Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka in his recent arrest: the incident gave the gubernatorial candidate widespread attention just four weeks before the June Democratic primary, in which voters from his party will pick from a field of six.His dramatic arrest by Homeland ...
CAMDEN – Teachers, staff and community members decried planned deep cuts in the Camden City School District budget at a Tuesday hearing, with many blaming the rise of public charter and renaissance schools for the traditional district’s problems. Katrina T. McCombs, the outgoing school ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Atiba Page is a daughter, sister, auntie, caregiver and community leader. And, as a stage-four breast cancer survivor, she is also a reminder of the very reason the $1 billion, 12-story, 519,000-square-foot Jack and Sheryl Cancer Center was built.Page, who received a standing ...
New Jersey sits at the epicenter of the Boston to Washington, DC, northeast corridor, a region accounting for one-fifth of the nation’s economy. With its strategic location, New Jersey is a vital conduit for commercial and commuter transport. Essential to this transportation ecosystem are New ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – The $1 billion Jack and Sheryl Morris Cancer Center – where patients will receive cutting-edge care and researchers will toil to unlock the mysteries of the disease – officially opened Tuesday.Gov. Phil Murphy, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Board of Directors Chairman Jack ...
CAMDEN – An art exhibit at Rutgers University-Camden that opens on Friday – advised by artist and Camden native Mickalene Thomas – “features works intended to promote a more inclusive and accurate representation of Black artists in Camden.” “Reframing the Narrative,” part of Rutgers' Year of the ...
Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka – who is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor – has been charged with federal trespassing after he was arrested on Friday during a chaotic scene involving protesters, members of Congress and federal agents outside Delaney Hall, the first new immigration ...
Este artículo fue traducido con Microsoft Word y servicios de traducción en línea.CAMDEN – El Distrito Escolar de Camden City llevará a cabo el martes una audiencia pública sobre su presupuesto propuesto para 2025-26, que tiene profundos recortes en gastos y personal.La audiencia se llevará a cabo ...
Este artículo fue traducido con Microsoft Word y servicios de traducción en línea.CAMDEN – Los observadores de concursos de belleza no suelen escuchar a los concursantes del evento decir que quieren ser Bob Esponja cuando crezcan. Tampoco suelen utilizar el concurso de talentos para mostrar sus ...
Leer en españolCAMDEN – The Camden City School District on Tuesday will hold a public hearing on its proposed 2025-26 budget, which has deep cuts in spending and staff.The hearing will be held in the Camden High School Campus Auditorium, 1700 Park Boulevard, beginning at 5:30 p.m. Details of the ...
Sharpe James, a controversial Democratic New Jersey politician who led Newark for 20 years as mayor, died today at 89 after a series of illnesses.James served as the city's 37th mayor from 1986 to 2006 after succeeding former Newark mayor Kenneth Gibson. He went on to fill the unexpired senatorial ...
Leer en españolCAMDEN – Pageant watchers do not often hear event contestants say they want to be SpongeBob SquarePants when they grow up. They also do not often use the talent competition to show off their cooking skills in a toy kitchen.But the Parada San Juan Bautista’s Little Miss Reina ...
NEW BRUNSWICK - For five years Tina Henry, who played softball for years and worked at a job where she stood all day, went to multiple doctors trying to find out why she was so dizzy and often couldn’t get off the couch.She underwent computerized tomography scans and magnetic resonance imaging, but ...
NEW BRUNSWICK - At the very top of Alex Geppert’s LinkedIn profile is a statement that reads like a challenge and a mission: “Technology is fast, and so am I.”It’s not a boast – it’s a fair summary of a young scholar who, at just 18, will graduate from Rutgers on May 18 with a double major in ...
Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka was released from the Homeland Security Investigations Newark office at about 8 p.m. Friday after he was arrested during a protest at Delaney Hall that afternoon. Baraka was arrested for trespassing, and Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba’s ...
CAMDEN – Eastside High School teacher Lyonel Dugue on Friday was intently working a quadratic equation on a whiteboard for a one-on-one algebra lesson in Spanish with senior Marvin Henriquez.Dugue, a native of Haiti who arrived in Camden 35 years ago and has been working in the district for 32 ...
CAMDEN – Mayor Victor Carstarphen focused his Thursday evening 2025 State of the City address on positive change, ranging from sharply lower crime to the planned $250 million rebuild of the Walter Rand Transportation Center and development of a 25-story mixed-use high rise that will go across the ...
NEW JERSEY — Gov. Phil Murphy cannot run for a third term and the field to replace him is crowded as 11 candidates vie for their party’s nominations in the June 10 primary election.That has left New Jersey voters with a number of questions, including How can I vote? Where do I vote? Who’s on the ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – The Jack and Sheryl Morris Cancer Center, which will be unveiled at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday, represents the largest development project in the city’s history.It’s a milestone moment for the city, this official opening of the 12-story, 520,000-square-foot hospital and ...
NEWARK - The controversial $6 billion Newark Bay Bridge replacement has received a permit and “finding of no significant impact” from the U.S. Coast Guard, clearing the way for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority to proceed with the construction of an extension between Interchanges 14 in Newark and ...
Look up all 2025-26 planned Camden County road and dam projects here.CAMDEN – Sections of eight major roads in Camden will be rebuilt this year and next at a total cost of $50 million, most of which will come from the state and federal governments, Camden County announced on Thursday. “This ...
CAMDEN — City and Camden County officials on Wednesday protested deep federal funding cuts to the nonprofit Center for Family Services, which provides social services in Camden.The Trump administration's cancellation of $3 million in funding for the nonprofit means cutbacks in violence intervention ...
CAMDEN – Robin Palley, who is president of the Camden-based Nick Virgilio Haiku Association and Writers House, received an unexpected phone call a while ago. The “(New Jersey Center for the Book) actually found us. We did not seek them out,” Palley told TAPinto Camden. “We got a wonderful call from ...
CAMDEN – About 23 acres of mostly empty land on Mount Ephraim Avenue at the Woodlynne and Collingswood borders would be targeted for development under a plan before City Council next Tuesday.A public hearing and second reading of a proposed ordinance to declare six properties as an “area in need of ...