Camden Top Stories
By NEILL BOROWSKI
April 8, 2026
CAMDEN – Instructor Cornelius “Con” Duffy doesn’t miss a beat when asked how many of his carpentry students have never touched a power tool before showing up to his class.“Mostly all of them,” Duffy, a retired 43-year member of the carpenters union and the lead, full-time instructor at the Henson ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Before celebrating his graduation this spring, Nico Cosereanu has one other life-changing experience he will check off his bucket list.On April 15, the School of Engineering student will appear in season 16 of “MasterChef,” Gordon Ramsay’s competition show featuring amateur cooks, ...
CAMDEN – City Council, which last year restricted the number of smoke shops in the city, is now considering an all-out ban on licensing any new retailers that primarily sell tobacco and vape products.Like many other communities in the nation, Camden wants to crack down on the highly visible smoke ...
CAMDEN – A Camden business executive in late March sued a former New Jersey attorney general and four employees in the attorney general's office for “creating a media spectacle” to advance themselves by criminally indicting him and others associated with Democratic power broker George E. Norcross ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – A non-profit organization dedicated to presenting world-class jazz in the city will celebrate its 17th anniversary with a landmark performance in its Emerging Artists Series.New Brunswick Jazz Project’s event, titled The Jazz Composers, is curated by the internationally acclaimed ...
TINTON FALLS - More than 300 police chiefs from throughout the state gathered here Thursday, April 2, to recognize and honor the 25thanniversary of John’s Law, named in memory of a young Navy Ensign from Egg Harbor Township, who was killed in a crash with a drunken driver in July, ...
CAMDEN – The Boys & Girls Club of Camden County has a simple theme: “great.” The word appears repeatedly on the club's website; the site's main headline says “Great Futures Start Here.” When the organization celebrated its 25th anniversary in March at The Merion in Cinnaminson, it was called ...
CAMDEN – Subaru of America Inc. is seeking city approval to turn two acres of empty lots off Admiral Wilson Boulevard into parking for its corporate vehicles.Finger One LLC, owned by Subaru, is scheduled to appear before the Planning Board next Thursday for preliminary and final site plan approval ...
CAMDEN – Long before Camden native Jose Perez worked behind the scenes on Amazon shows such as “Sons of Sin” and “Chase Street,” he said he knew the full power of writing. “I got into creative writing while I was in prison,” Perez told TAPinto Camden. “Writing has been my therapy and my escape, ...
CAMDEN – Since 1943, the corner of East State Street and River Avenue held squat, nondescript two-story brick apartment buildings that went 15 deep on East State with another group of eight next door.The 306 units in Ablett Village, quickly built for workers moving to the city to fill World War II ...
Editor's Note: This article is part of a series sponsored by the Camden Education Fund about some of the exceptional Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics curricula taught at some of the city’s schools. CAMDEN — Many people know that when educators refer to STEM, they mean science, ...
CAMDEN – A 28-year-old Camden man has been charged with first-degree murder for allegedly beating a 51-year-old woman with a baseball bat on Wednesday night on the street. Her cause of death was determined to be blunt abdominal trauma.Enoch Rembert allegedly repeatedly struck Lisa Mellet of Camden ...
CAMDEN – Leslie M. Walker views sports as an effective way to help lift a community and its youth.“I just see sports as a connector,” said Walker, executive director of the Philadelphia 76ers' Sixers Youth Foundation.That's why Walker says her foundation was pleased to be the first and a continuing ...
Report from the buoyancy exhibit. © Neill Borowski | March 26, 2026CAMDEN – Lyam Ortiz Ramos expounded on the concept of buoyancy, explaining his experiments and those of his colleagues.Surface area is the key, the 8-year-old said, and his large aluminum foil boat managed to hold the largest cargo ...
CAMDEN – By the end of this year, Camden County expects to have altered the course of River Avenue so that it intersects with Federal Street at a 90-degree angle.The $3.3 million project, which includes resurfacing River Avenue (also known as River Road), is scheduled to start this week with ...
CAMDEN – The state stepped up its lawsuit against Camden scrap metal company EMR last week at the same time as two bills cracking down on New Jersey scrapyard operations made it through an Assembly committee.Regulatory attention has been intensively directed toward scrap metal companies after a ...
TRENTON — The New Jersey Legislature voted Monday on three bills aimed at regulating and monitoring the state’s growing number of data centers.The Senate passed S3379, which would require data center owners and operators to submit semi-annual reports on water and energy use to the Board of Public ...
CAMDEN – If your property is in Camden County, the county clerk's office is offering an alert service that could help you protect your home from fraudsters.“Title fraud, or deed theft, is when someone illegally transfers the title or deed of your property without your knowledge, often using forged ...
Editor's Note: This article is part of a series sponsored by the Camden Education Fund about some of the exceptional Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics curricula taught at some of the city’s schools.CAMDEN — Dawn Wolfson, a science, technology, engineering and math teacher at Mastery ...
Editor's Note: This article is part of a series sponsored by the Camden Education Fund about some of the exceptional Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics curricula taught at some of the city’s schools. CAMDEN — For about a dozen seventh grade science, technology, engineering and ...
CAMDEN – Last year the city celebrated its first summer without a homicide in 50 years.Today – the first day of spring – the Camden County Police Department reported zero homicides for the first winter since the 1970s.“As a son of this city and having worked my entire law enforcement career in ...
CAMDEN – The provenance of the "I Voted" sticker, ubiquitous on the chests of voters everywhere on Election Day, isn't fully clear.Janet Boudreau created a familiar one 38 years ago in Seattle and by 2000 her company was selling 100 million in each election year, according to an AARP article.
CAMDEN – A state assemblyman's supporters turned a St. Patrick's celebration into a fundraiser that will help buy food for a Camden food pantry.The Friends of Bill Moen St. Patrick's Celebration – recognizing Assemblyman William F. Moen Jr. – raised $6,100 for the Heart of Camden food pantry ...
CAMDEN – City and county leaders joined the Camden Fire Department in welcoming a new ladder truck to the North 27th Street Fire Station at a ceremony on Wednesday, March 18. The new $1.5 million ladder truck will primarily serve the neighborhoods of Cramer Hill, East Camden, and parts of Parkside, ...
CAMDEN – Ham, pineapple, potatoes and pie were on the Christmas Day menu in 1979 when Cathedral Kitchen volunteers fed about 100 people at its former Linden Street building.That was the fourth year that Cathedral Kitchen had put on a holiday spread for the homeless and others in need of a meal, and ...
TRENTON – New Jersey state Sen. Bob Smith (D-Middlesex), Sen. Linda Greenstein (D-Middlesex/Mercer) and Sen. John McKeon (D-Essex/Passaic) are pushing two bills aimed at tackling the rising energy demand from data centers across the state. Specifically, the measures seek to address operations by ...
CAMDEN – The name of the developer of 18 proposed townhouses, which could sell for about a half-million dollars each in a prime location near Rutgers University, may foreshadow a growing movement to build market-rate homes in a city that has been focused on building lower-income housing.Camden ...
TRENTON - Legislation sponsored by Assemblyman William Sampson (D-Hudson) and Assemblywoman Shanique Speight (D-Essex-Union) that would provide New Jersey workers with protected leave following the loss of a child or during pregnancy advanced Monday through the Assembly Labor Committee.Bill A2198 ...
When Michael B. Jordan stepped onto the Academy Awards stage Sunday night to accept the Oscar for Best Actor, it was not only a milestone in his celebrated acting career. For many in Newark, it was a hometown victory. The Newark native won his first Oscar for his performance portraying twin ...
Art Still is on a mission.Still, a Camden High School alumnus and four-time NFL Pro-Bowler, traveled from his Missouri home to his native city to appear in a March 11 panel discussion at Camden’s First Nazarene Baptist Church. Football was not the subject, however, but an often overlooked medical ...