Camden Top Stories
By TAPINTO CAMDEN STAFF REPORT
May 6, 2025
Camden - Camden Prep will be able to fund four athletic teams and two after-school clubs thanks to a $25,000 donation from NFI, a family-owned supply chain solutions provider headquartered in the city.Camden Prep's Mt. Ephraim Middle School and Copewood Middle School campuses will be the largest ...
CAMDEN – The high school biology curriculum has changed significantly from what Charles Cooper said he was taught roughly 15 years ago. “It was pretty much plants, matter and fossils,” Cooper, who is on the verge of finishing the Mastery Charter School’s teaching residency program, told TAPinto ...
CAMDEN – Jannette Ramos, who has a background in social work and nonprofits, said that a few years ago she envisioned an overarching event to bring together community service providers with city residents all “under one roof.”Through her It Takes a Village Housing nonprofit, Ramos dispensed with ...
CAMDEN – Every so often, a customer asks Nika Corbett a question that has nothing to do with Curate Noir, the business incubator that Corbett co-owns at 1327 Haddon Avenue. “They tell me where they found a parking spot and ask: ‘Was it OK that I parked there?’ ” Corbett told TAPinto Camden. “We ...
CAMDEN – Ciara Hernandez has a lot on her agenda, including graduating next month from Camden Academy Charter School and preparing to attend Rowan University in the fall on a full scholarship.Yet she also does not want to overlook what she will do four years from now – when, as a registered ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Six hundred, seventy-four contracts – from sewer-line replacement jobs to purchases of garbage trucks to orders for accessible parking signs – have been issued during Judy Lapp’s time working in the city’s engineering department. At least that was the count as of a few weeks ago, ...
NEWARK - The first elementary school dedicated solely to serving students with autism has opened in Newark, where the number of autism cases has spiked in recent years. The Newark Public School District welcomed local leaders, parents and guardians to celebrate the opening of Branch Brook School, ...
PATERSON - Hollywood came to the Silk City on Thursday as actor Robert De Niro was spotted filming behind City Hall for the upcoming Netflix thriller The Whisper Man.The project, based on the bestselling 2019 novel by Alex North, follows the story of a widowed crime writer whose young son is ...
CAMDEN – Thirteen Black and Latina women candidates for the Camden County Democratic Committee at large must be included on the June 10 primary election ballot, according to a state Superior Court order.The candidates, who challenged a decision that left them off the ballot because of a clerical ...
CAMDEN – Deep cuts in the Camden City School District budget will require eliminating 289 full-time-equivalent positions, an 18-percent workforce reduction that will affect staff members more than classroom teachers.The 2025-26 school year cuts in part reflect sharply plunging enrollment in the ...
CAMDEN – Using a DNA match, a body found in a car in the Cooper River last May has been identified as Camden resident Bernadine Gunner, who was 52 in 2010 when she was reported missing by family members.Gunner “was last seen driving her 2006 blue Hyundai Elantra after threatening to take her own ...
CAMDEN – Theo Spencer, who challenged Mayor Victor Carstarphen in the 2021 general election when Spencer ran as an independent, will face Carstarphen again, but this time in the June 10 Democratic primary election.Spencer, of the 1300 block of Haddon Avenue, is running as an Independent Democrat ...
EAST RUTHERFORD - Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) New Jersey hosted its 16th annual New Jersey Neighborhood Achievement Awards ceremony on Friday, April 25 at MetLife Stadium.The annual event celebrates individuals and organizations who have made significant contributions to ...
MOUNT HOLLY – Three men, two of them from Camden, were allegedly inside a car that drove past a Willingboro building twice in 2024 and, the second time around, a gunman fired into a crowd and fatally shot a Willingboro man, according to the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office.Camden residents ...
CAMDEN – The namesake of the newly refurbished open space called Eli's Legacy Park was a believer in Camden’s potential through the city’s ups and downs, according to Bridget Phifer, executive director of Parkside Business & Community in Partnership.Therefore, Phifer said, it seemed apt to name ...
NEW BRUNSWICK - Peter Seligmann, a Rutgers alumnus and an influential voice in conservation, will address the graduates at the university’s 259th anniversary commencement ceremonies on May 18.As founder of Conservation International, Seligmann works with luminaries such as actor Harrison Ford to ...
CAMDEN – Pope Francis, who died Monday at age 88, never set foot in Camden, but he still left an impression here.Camden City Council President Angel Fuentes, on his Facebook page, called the first Latin American pontiff “a humble pope who boldly spoke to the most powerful people about the value of ...
The Camden Education Fund (CEF) provides grants to nonprofit organizations in Camden that serve the city’s youth. TAPinto Camden looks at how that funding has made a difference. CAMDEN – The Daelight Foundation and Boys of Sustainable Strength Mentoring are positively changing and influencing ...
Thirteen Newark residents are among 26 people charged with alleged roles in the “Double ii – Queen Street Blood Gang” that used violence and intimidation to operate an open-air drug market in the city, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office and Division of Criminal Justice said.“Following an ...
WOODBRIDGE — A surprise awaits children with autism at Indiana Avenue Elementary School when they return from spring break next Monday. Spoiler Alert: It’s a specially designed playground to meet their disability needs.Work on this autism-friendly playground began on Tuesday, April 22nd. It should ...
CAMDEN – A new website – CamdenNJ.Gov/volunteer – will connect residents, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and partners with volunteer opportunities across Camden, Mayor Victor Carstarphen has told TAPinto Camden. “We wanted to have a uniform place where those who want to volunteer can give ...
CAMDEN – On Tuesday, which was Earth Day, Camden resident and avid gardener Ernesto Ventura Sr. received a free tree to add to his yard.“This will fit in nicely with my tomatoes, grapes and other trees,” he said in an interview as he examined the roughly 2-foot piece of greenery. The tree Ventura ...
CAMDEN – Pope Francis, who died on Monday at age 88, will be the subject of a special Mass on Wednesday at noon in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Market Street, a Diocese of Camden spokesperson told TAPinto Camden. The diocese said its Mass for the “repose of the soul” of Pope ...
They came to Camden’s Salvation Army Kroc Center on April 15, 2025, for help with expungements and pardons — and with very different histories and for very different reasons.Some, like Hassan Shakur and Tyrone Gadson, said they had each been incarcerated for roughly 30 years on homicide convictions ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – National autism rates have reached a record high, with about one in 31 children identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and co-authored by a Rutgers researcher.This represents a 22% ...
CAMDEN – Workers at EMR’s Camden scrapyard initially tried to extinguish a scrap-pile fire on February 21 by using a crane to hoist burning material onto a conveyor belt leading to the yard’s shredding building until they were repeatedly told to stop by firefighters, according to an investigation ...
CAMDEN – Giana Campbell is quick with her opinion of schoolteachers.“Teaching is the purest form of love,” says Campbell, chief executive officer of Camden Education Fund, a nonprofit with a mission dedicated to accelerating progress in Camden public schools.Campbell’s organization pays for many ...
CAMDEN – The company responsible for a Camden scrapyard blaze that sent smoke over the city and region has agreed to enhance the yard’s fire suppression system and spend $6.7 million improving the community, according to an announcement from Mayor Victor Carstarphen.EMR, which reclaims automotive ...
NEWARK - Only 67 out of 1,771 registered Newark teens appear to have voted in Tuesday's school board election, the first in which 16- and 17-year-olds were able to cast their ballots, according to unofficial tallies from the Essex County Clerk’s Office.The Newark City Council voted unanimously in ...
A Virtua Health program that began in 2021 in a well-worn and not-always reliable former NJ Transit Bus has advanced to a specially designed mobile grocery store that was unveiled Wednesday to Virtua staff, government officials and donors.The program, designed to make healthy food accessible to ...