Camden Top Stories
By TAPINTO CAMDEN STAFF
March 21, 2025
CAMDEN – A $75,000 grant from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey to the Camden Community Partnership will allow the nonprofit to expand its initiatives into healthy foods and lifestyles and youth athletics and fitness, the CCP announced.The gift, through the Horizon Foundation for New ...
NEWARK - Gubernatorial candidates Ras J. Baraka, a Democrat, and Republican Bill Spadea fell into a verbal back-and-forth on whether Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs help New Jersey's minority-owned businesses at a panel discussion hosted by the New Jersey Diverse Business Advisory Council ...
NEWARK — The New Jersey Hall of Fame has released its list of 60 nominees for the 2025 public vote, which is open through April 15.The inductees will be announced at the end of June, with the induction ceremony scheduled for the fall.TAPinto is proud to be a media sponsor of the New Jersey Hall of ...
CAMDEN – Cooper's Poynt Family School 6th grader Dilan Cano Cartagena said the mindset he had about poetry changed when he took the first class of a six-week haiku program sponsored by the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association on March 13 at his school.“I did not realize (poetry) did not always have to ...
CAMDEN – A line of residents, their shopping bags in hand, streamed from the doors and wound around the sidewalk outside Veterans Memorial School in Camden on Wednesday afternoon.They were there for a City School District farmers market where, for free, they could take away mushrooms, rosemary, ...
CAMDEN – Most parents expect their child to walk and talk by age 3. But there are often exceptions, and 18-year-old Creative Arts Academy senior Sasha Oglesby did much more than her peers by that age, her mother, Janine Oglesby, said.“She has always been into singing," Oblesby told TAPinto Camden.
CAMDEN – Juniors and seniors at Mastery High School of Camden are using the “Career Pathway/Workforce Development” program to get the education and skills they need to land a job before they graduate. Students at the renaissance school participate in the program beginning as sophomores, when they ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Dr. C. Roy Epps, an indefatigable advocate for affordable housing and a champion of New Brunswick’s youth for more than 50 years, has died after a long illness.Epps, whose legacy also includes his stint as the first Black president of the city’s Board of Education and his efforts ...
NEWARK - Hilma Barrera, a senior at Newark’s Technology High School, was among 47 Essex County high school students who were celebrated last week as unsung heroes. But Barrera couldn’t accept the award herself; she had died of cancer just five days before the March 13 ceremony. She was 18. “It is ...
CAMDEN – A Pennsauken church with development partners has received the blessing of Camden and the city’s state legislative delegation to construct a 123-unit, three-story apartment complex in East Camden.Bethel-Hosanna AME Church of Haddonfield Road in Pennsauken is the nonprofit partner with the ...
NEWARK - March Madness basketball fans visiting Downtown Newark for the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight segments of the NCAA tournament can access a guidebook to the city’s arts, cultural and food scene. Today, Newark Alliance, Invest Newark and the city's Arts and Education District launched “Newark Fan ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Countless stargazers have peered at the heavens at Rutgers’ Schanck Observatory since it opened in 1865 at what is now the corner of George and Hamilton streets.For close to four decades, however, when the two-story structure fell into disrepair and its vintage refractor telescope ...
TRENTON — The state's potholes could soon be on the road to recovery. The New Jersey Department of Transportation's (NJDOT) annual statewide pothole repair campaign starts Monday."Over the next couple of months, our priority will be repairing the most significant potholes from this winter,” NJDOT ...
NEWARK - Making his family proud was why fallen Newark Police Sgt. Joseph Anthony Azcona wanted to become a police officer for his city. Reading from Azcona’s police academy file, dated Sept. 17, 2019, Newark Public Safety Director Emanuel Miranda stood before the packed Cathedral Basilica of the ...
TRENTON — A legislative committee has signed off on a bill to require New Jersey schools to teach elementary school students cursive handwriting.The legislation is the first step toward reinstituting a statewide policy to teach cursive handwriting to all students by third grade, a move that ...
CAMDEN – Applicants who propose initiatives to tackle food insecurity in several New Jersey communities, including Camden, have until April 3 to apply for state grants of up to $500,000."We’re really putting our money where our mouth is. Food security is an economic investment," Tara Colton, chief ...
CAMDEN – One man is dead and another is in critical condition after Wednesday night shootings near the 300 block of Morse Street, according to the Camden County Prosecutor's Office.Jose Hiraldo-Peralta, 32, of Camden was found on the ground by Camden County Police Department officers suffering from ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Leonieke Scheuble, who was all of 12 the first time she played with the New Brunswick Jazz Project, has transformed over the years from prodigy to professional band leader. Now 23, she was earlier this week facing a very adult issue: She wasn’t sure she was going to find a bass ...
CAMDEN – Some water mains that date back to early in the last century and provide drinking water to the city will be replaced by New Jersey American Water beginning next week and through the end of June."Through these essential upgrades, we are significantly enhancing service reliability to help ...
Manasquan High School edged Camden High in the final three seconds of the game to win 44-43 in an NJSIAA South/Central Group 2 state semifinal, on March 13, 2025.Last year, these two teams also played a semifinal game, which ended in controversy when referees erroneously gave Camden the win by not ...
Este artículo fue traducido con Microsoft Word y servicios de traducción en línea.CAMDEN – Los costos de control de animales, especialmente el manejo de colonias de gatos callejeros, aumentan anualmente para la ciudad y ahora son un gasto de casi $1 millón en el presupuesto de la ciudad."Cada año ...
Este artículo fue traducido con Microsoft Word y servicios de traducción en línea.CAMDEN – Cuando Eric Mora Jiménez, de 17 años, llegó a los Estados Unidos en 2016 desde su natal República Dominicana, hablaba poco inglés y se inscribió en un curso de ESL de cuarto grado en el Distrito Escolar de ...
Leer en españolCAMDEN – When 17-year-old Eric Mora Jimenez arrived in the United States in 2016 from his native Dominican Republic, he spoke little English and enrolled in a fourth-grade ESL course in the Camden City School District.Jimenez, who still lives in the city, will graduate in June with a ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Lisa Allen ran her hands back and forth over the surface of the wall-mounted plaything, determined to get its circles to light up. With some swipes of her hands, they glowed green. After a few more, they turned red.The sensory wall designed to occupy little ones that the Senior ...
Leer en españolCAMDEN – Animal control costs – especially managing feral cat colonies – increase annually for the city and are now nearly a $1 million expense in the city budget."Every year it goes up and up and up," City Council President Angel Fuentes told TAPinto Camden in an interview.Fuentes, ...
Fallen Newark Police Det. Joseph Anthony Azcona had always been a defender, beginning with his early years on the soccer field sporting a yellow jersey and cleats, said his youth coach. “He always wanted to be one of the defenders and never wanted to leave that position,” said Jose Mayorga, who had ...
CAMDEN – City Council on Tuesday is scheduled to formally ask Gov. Phil Murphy and the state Legislature to reconsider a June electric rate increase because it will have a “detrimental impact” on the residents, businesses and the city of Camden.The resolution, introduced by Council President Angel ...
The Camden High School Panthers won another South Jersey Group 2 boys basketball title easily, defeating Middle Township 85-50 on March 8, 2025. The decisive victory - with four Panthers scoring in double figures - sends Camden to play Manasquan in the state semifinals next week.That game will be a ...
Camden's preschools are well short of a 1998 court-ordered directive to maintain enrollment of 90% of the city's 3- and 4-year-old children, according to a recent study published by the Education Law Center.Danielle Farrie, Education Law Center Researcher and co-author of the recent study, told ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – The gray crayon is tired from coloring-in elephants and hippos, the white crayon feels unseen and the orange and yellow crayons are feuding over which one should be used to color the sun.That’s when “The Day the Crayons Quit” – a colorful picture book read with enthusiasm and ...