Camden Top Stories
By NEILL BOROWSKI
December 26, 2024
CAMDEN – As Colandra Coleman departed each day from Joseph’s House, the Atlantic Avenue overnight homeless shelter, she noticed some of the regular guests hanging around outside the gate.Colandra Coleman, executive director of Joseph's House of Camden. Provided photo.The 555 Atlantic Avenue “low ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Fifth graders Gianna Rodriguez and April Espinal, like their classmates at Lord Stirling Elementary School, are the top bananas when it comes to their knowledge of fruits and vegetables – even when it comes to something as uncommon as kumquats.“We tried them in our classroom, and ...
Este artículo fue traducido con Microsoft Word y servicios de traducción en línea.CAMDEN – Falio Leyba-Martínez dice que entiende que en los vecindarios densamente poblados de Camden puede ser difícil encontrar un lugar para estacionar su automóvil.Sin embargo, la escasez a veces de espacios de ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – From Rutgers to the Rockettes – you could say it has been a spectacular journey for identical twins Caitlin and Courtney Sullivan, a pair of 2020 Rutgers graduates.For Caitlin and Courtney, 25, who go to New York each holiday season to catch the famous Christmas Spectacular at Radio ...
WOODCLIFF LAKE — Party City is going out of business, closing all of its remaining stores, including 25 scattered throughout New Jersey.Party City has New Jersey stores in Bridgewater, Clark, Hazlet, Howell, Jersey City, Mays Landing, Paramus, Princeton, South Plainfield, Wayne and elsewhere.The ...
New Jersey American Water customers in 67 communities from six New Jersey counties say water from their household faucets suddenly stinks, is discolored and began to taste terrible on Dec. 17th. The cause is under investigation.A prepared statement from New Jersey American Water says its crews are ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – People were reluctant at first, but soon slowly extended their hands to their neighbors sitting next to them. In moments, they had grasped each other’s hands, and total strangers had transformed into new friends.It was a simple act intended to foster connection among those who ...
CAMDEN – Holiday cheer, in the form of 20,000 pounds of food to be given away free to city residents, will be spread on Monday, December 23.The Arab-American Community Church and company Jack Jordan Inc. will be joined by Mayor Victor Carstarphen and others at the giveaway from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at ...
WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) temporarily banned flights of drones on Thursday near 22 different New Jersey locations, all considered critical infrastructure. The monthlong restrictions are scattered over nine of the state's 21 counties.This comes after weeks of drone ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – The City Council adopted an ordinance banning smoking in parks and some other public spaces around the city at Wednesday’s meeting, but not before hearing impassioned testimony from residents who support and oppose it.Ordinance O-122401, which adds a new chapter to the city’s health ...
Skaters now have a dedicated, $900,000 skateboarding park in Camden County's Cooper River Park.The concrete hills, quarterpipes and other skateboarding challenges officially opened Wednesday in the Cherry Hill section of the park on Park Boulevard, across from the DoubleTree Hotel and next to the ...
CAMDEN – Former Camden Parking Authority Director Theodore “Teddy” Hinson knew how blessed he was, so it was important for him to bestow blessings on others, his widow Novella Starks-Hinson told TAPinto Camden. “He always wanted the kids of Camden to have toys, and he would send us out and make ...
Haga clic aquí para leer esta historia en españolNEW BRUNSWICK – The historic mansion where Rutgers’ Eagleton Institute studies American politics and government is set to undergo what the university calls a “historically appropriate restoration.”Wood Lawn Mansion on the Cook-Douglass Campus was ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Just Buy It.That’s the hope of the Rutgers athletics program after the university’s Board of Governors voted Tuesday to authorize a five-year deal worth an estimated $30 million with Nike.Rutgers will work with Dallas-based BSN Sports, a major distributor of Nike products, to ...
A hearing in Trenton on Monday before the state Senate Education Committee looked back on the 30-year history of charter schools, assessing the progress made as well as opportunities for improvement. Charter school advocates highlighted the positive role that charter schools have played in ...
Leer en españolCAMDEN – Falio Leyba-Martinez says he understands that in Camden's densely populated neighborhoods it can be difficult to find a place to park your car.The sometimes scarcity of parking spaces, however, is no reason to park on sidewalks, grass medians or in public alleys, said ...
The only hitch at the Camden City Fashion Week show on December 14, 2024 came early for the event’s founder, Tawanda Jones.A few months ago, Jones heard that another South Jersey woman was challenging her for the use of the name “Camden Fashion Week” as a trademark. Rather than fight about it, ...
Este artículo fue traducido con Microsoft Word y servicios de traducción en línea.CAMDEN – Miles de millones de dólares de desarrollo se han dirigido a Camden, con grandes corporaciones trasladando sus oficinas centrales a la ciudad.Ahora, esas empresas y otras en la región deberían mostrar su ...
Este artículo fue traducido con Microsoft Word y servicios de traducción en línea.CAMDEN – Cuando la antigua Eastside High School en Federal Street cerró sus puertas por última vez en junio, se esperaba que los pupitres escolares, muebles, pizarras y otros accesorios fueran arrojados con el ...
Leer en españolCAMDEN – Billions of development dollars have been aimed at Camden, with large corporations moving their headquarters to the city.Now those businesses and others in the region should show their support by spending with small businesses designated as being part of the city’s economic ...
CAMDEN – LaVonia Abavana of Camden said she and her then 4-year-old son were in a different place financially and emotionally about a decade ago. “I remember when I was too poor to have a Christmas toy for my child. I was so sad,” she told TAPinto on Saturday, December 14. But then, just before ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – The Henry Guest House, a sturdy, two-story dwelling that, over the past 264 years, has survived damage believed to have been caused by British soldiers during the Revolutionary War, the ravages of time, and even a move from one spot on Livingston Avenue to another, will be getting a ...
Leer en españolCAMDEN – When the former Eastside High School on Federal Street closed its doors for the last time in June, school desks, furniture, blackboards and other fixtures were expected to be dumped with the building itself.A new high school will go on the site of the old one, filled with ...
EDISON — This Central New Jersey town took it on the chin, making national and international news from as far away as Australia, India and Great Britain, after imposing new rules of conduct at public meetings — including prohibiting “props” like the American flag.Now, the Edison Township Council ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – The wind huffed and puffed, rattling the walls of a makeshift tent that had been erected amid an ocean of gravel on Jersey Avenue. This NJ Transit rail yard, known as the County Yard, is strewn with some wind-tossed wrappers, shards of glass and stray strips of misshapen ...
Kristine KennedyCAMDEN – Kristine Kennedy's working background is diverse, and little of it pointed to a career in urban and community development.That is, until she wanted a better playground.The University of Buffalo film school graduate worked in photography and film for several years when she ...
Este artículo fue traducido con Microsoft Word y servicios de traducción en línea.CAMDEN – A partir del lunes, la ciudad pondrá en marcha el estacionamiento gratuito durante las fiestas en los parquímetros.No se emitirán multas por estacionar en parquímetros entre el lunes y el 1 de enero de 2025, ...
Este artículo fue traducido con Microsoft Word y servicios de traducción en línea.CAMDEN – Líderes del distrito escolar de la ciudad y de las escuelas chárter y renacentistas, que trabajan en sus propias organizaciones enfocadas en sus propios objetivos, se reunieron el miércoles en un evento ...
NEW YORK, NY — Westfield resident and anti-bullying champion John Mirrione set and broke 11 world records for one-armed push-ups on solid stone ground Wednesday in lower Manhattan. Mirrione chose to perform this feat of mental and physical strength in front of the headquarters of the Department of ...
Leer en españolCAMDEN – Beginning Monday, the city will kick off free holiday parking at meters.No tickets for parking at meters will be issued between Monday and January 1, 2025, according to the city.“Illegal parking in handicap parking areas, along yellow no-parking curb lines, in tow-away ...