Camden Top Stories
By CHUCK O'DONNELL
April 2, 2025
NEW BRUNSWICK - The afternoon sun glinted off the life-sized, lifelike sculpture of Paul Robeson at the entrance of Feaster Park.Nearby, midday motorists made their way up and down Robeson Boulevard, occasionally breaking the quiet with a somewhat-polite beep or two. At Rutgers, where Robeson was a ...
CAMDEN – After an on-again/off-again history of 89 years, the Franklin Square PATCO High Speedline station will reopen on Thursday, April 3, as the first stop in Philadelphia, just over the Ben Franklin Bridge.The station, near the National Constitution Center and Chinatown, last handled PATCO ...
CAMDEN – NFL linebacker and Camden native Haason Reddick, who frequently returns to the city to support community events, plans to build 28 single homes and townhomes in Camden through a nonprofit organization he formed last year.Reddick’s Urban Renaissance Community Builders Corp. (URCB) of ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – The steely stare of Pat Sheehan stands out among the portraits that have been assembled in the window of George Street Camera to mark Women’s History Month.You could forgive her for not cracking a smile for the photo.The first and only woman to serve as mayor of New Brunswick faced ...
Este artículo fue traducido con Microsoft Word y servicios de traducción en línea.CAMDEN – Dos jóvenes, uno de Camden y otro de Pennsauken, fueron asesinados a tiros el sábado por la noche en North Camden, según la Oficina del Fiscal del Condado de Camden.Francisco Benavides, de 21 años, de ...
Leer en españolCAMDEN – Two young men, one from Camden and one from Pennsauken, were shot to death on Saturday night in North Camden, according to the Camden County Prosecutor's Office.Francisco Benavides, 21, of Pennsauken, was found outside the 600 block of North Fifth Street about 10:54 p.m. and ...
CAMDEN – The Camden County Prosecutor’s Office and Camden County Commissioners announced on Sunday that they will join the national blue envelope initiative that lets police officers at a traffic stop know that the driver is autistic or has other special needs.The envelope, designed to hold ...
CAMDEN – Deadlines are nearing for two youth summer work programs in Camden and Camden County.The city of Camden Summer Youth Internship Program will hire only city residents who are 14 to 17 years old. The jobs pay $14 an hour for up to 20 hours a week. The deadline to apply for the estimated 80 ...
NEWARK - Messages like “It’s Madness To Think Sex Buying Won’t Land You A Penalty,” “Sex Buying Is Foul,” and “It’s Madness To Think Sex Buying Is A Victimless Crime” rotated on an electronic Broad Street billboard in Newark this past week, greeting sports fans coming to the Prudential Center to ...
WOODBRIDGE — This Central New Jersey community has a business boom going, with many new restaurants, retailers and other businesses arriving downtown and elsewhere across this 24-square-mile town.Nearly a half-dozen businesses recently opened. Others are in the works, says Mayor John E. McCormac, ...
NEW BRUNSWICK - A Rutgers student group has assembled more than 1,600 home test kits to spread a message about the importance of early screening for colorectal cancer – the second-most common cause of cancer deaths in the United States.Volunteers with the Rutgers Health Service Corps have been ...
CAMDEN – A five-story building with a large grocery store on the first floor and market-rate housing on upper floors would be built on the site of the now-demolished Broadway Elementary School at Broadway and Clinton Street, according to plans in the works.The Rowan University/Rutgers-Camden Board ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Public School District officials have yanked a social studies assignment that asked high school students to assess the case of a pro-Palestinian student activist who was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents last month.In a statement provided to TAPinto New ...
The Camden Education Fund provides grants to non-profit organizations in Camden that serve the city's youth. TAPinto Camden is taking a look at how that funding has made a difference.CAMDEN – Representatives from The Neighborhood Center, Movimiento Tricolor, and Camden Repertory Theater Community ...
Este artículo fue traducido con Microsoft Word y servicios de traducción en línea.CAMDEN – Alrededor del 13% de la fuerza laboral total de 52 empleadores de Camden en la segunda mitad de 2024 eran residentes de la ciudad, según los documentos requeridos.Una nueva ley de la ciudad en 2022 comenzó a ...
Este artículo fue traducido con Microsoft Word y servicios de traducción en línea.CAMDEN – Katrina T. McCombs, Superintendente Estatal del Distrito Escolar de Camden City, dejará el cargo el 1 de julio para convertirse en comisionada asistente en el Departamento de Educación de Nueva Jersey, ...
Este artículo fue traducido con Microsoft Word y servicios de traducción en línea.CAMDEN – Con cascos, chalecos de construcción de color amarillo brillante y gafas de seguridad, los funcionarios de la ciudad de Camden y otras personas marcaron el martes la casi finalización de un nuevo sistema de ...
NEWARK, NJ — CivicsNJ, a new, non-partisan coalition that describes itself as an organization “dedicated to advancing civic learning and engagement” launched earlier this month at a ceremony in Newark.“The purpose of CivicsNJ is to share information, connect teachers and other service leaders to ...
Leer en españolCAMDEN – Wearing hard hats, bright yellow construction vests and safety glasses, Camden city officials and others on Tuesday marked the near-completion of a new drinking water treatment filtration system at the Morris-Delair Water Treatment Plant.They also recognized diverse ...
NEWARK - Civic engagement started at home for Domonique Bateman, a 17-year-old at North Star Academy’s Lincoln Park High School, who learned the importance of voting from her mother. During every election season, Bateman went with her mom to watch her vote. Even after they moved to a new home in ...
Leer en españolCAMDEN – Katrina T. McCombs, State Superintendent of the Camden City School District, will leave on July 1 to become an assistant commissioner in the New Jersey Department of Education, she announced Tuesday morning.“After seven years of leading the district through both areas of ...
EDISON - In a tribute to the late Peter J. Barnes III, the area formerly known as the Dismal Swamp has been renamed in his honor along with a regulatory body to oversee the 660-acre conservation area.The Peter J. Barnes III Wildlife Preserve and Peter J. Barnes III Wildlife Preserve Commission ...
NEWARK - Teens have one more day to register to vote for the first time in the April 15 Newark school board election, and efforts have been ramped up to reach the district’s goal of 3,000 high school students registered by the March 25 deadline. Now they have the incentive of prize money.The ...
Leer en españolCAMDEN – About 13% of the total workforce at 52 Camden employers in the second half of 2024 were city residents, according to required filings.A new city law in 2022 began requiring businesses, nonprofits and government agencies who employ 25 or more in Camden to submit a ...
CAMDEN – While certain types of horseshoe crab are safe to eat, that is not why the arthropod made an appearance at the Second Annual Salvation Army Kroc Center Health and Wellness Fair on Saturday, according to Tracey Brooks, the senior manager of youth and community engagement at the Center for ...
WOODBRIDGE — A 54-year-old Iselin man became a millionaire on March 14th as the top prize winner in the NJ Lottery’s Million Dollar Replay grand prize drawing at Atlantic City’s Golden Nugget casino-hotel.State lottery officials drew one of Iselin’s Daniel DeSanto’s old Scratch-Off tickets to make ...
CAMDEN – Music boomed through the basketball courts at the former Boys & Girls Club of Parkside on Friday morning as city students focused not on dancing or sports but on things more exciting: science, technology, engineering and mathematics.About 200 students from across Camden – the City ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Members of New Jersey's Congressional delegation have demanded answers from Amtrak on the status of repairs to the Northeast Corridor and the implementation of federally funded infrastructure upgrades. In a letter to Amtrak Chair Anthony Coscia, NJ members of the U.S. House of ...
ROXBURY – The emergence of another sinkhole along Route 80 forced the state on Wednesday to close both lanes of the highway in Wharton, prompted it to hit the brakes on other road projects statewide and sidelined its plan to build a “crossover” lane that could have lightened traffic through ...
WOOD-RIDGE - A memorial in Wood-Ridge seeks to acknowledge and remind people of the contributions of women to the war effort over 80 years ago. Today, Friday, March 21, is "National Rosie the Riveter Day," honoring the vital contributions that were made by countless American women of all ...