Camden Top Stories
By CHUCK O'DONNELL
September 19, 2024
NEW BRUNSWICK – Chicken quesadillas that went unclaimed in the cafeteria, tuna wraps left over from corporate luncheons and tons of other nutritious, perfectly fine food that would have otherwise gone to waste will soon help feed those facing food insecurity.An ambitious, innovative plan to unite ...
NEWARK — Having a cannabis criminal record can now better your chances when applying to be a cannabis business operator in New Jersey’s largest city.City Council on Wednesday approved a local law that expands and designates cannabis business licenses for people who have been convicted of marijuana ...
CAMDEN – Some of Terry Filbert’s neighbors in the Fairview section of Camden appear to engage in a frequent habit. “The city is good at cleaning things up,” Filbert told TAPinto Camden. “But the very next day, illegally dumped trash returns. I see a lot of it and it is disgusting.” Mike Melendez, ...
CAMDEN –The Walter Rand Transportation Center today is as much a center for shady activity, including drug dealing, as it is a center of transportation for the region.A two-story portable police surveillance tower holding a Camden County Police Department officer looks down on the front of the ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway, a keynote speaker at last summer’s annual Harvard New Presidents program, began to choke up when the topic turned to students.Wow, thought Dr. Dale Caldwell, a New Brunswick icon-turned-president of Centenary University, who was listening ...
CAMDEN – Beginning at age 7, little baseball player Courtland Smith showed up at the baseball diamond in the Centerville park to pitch and play shortstop. He learned to swim in the park’s pool, worked on his basketball skills and caught up with his friends.That was 50 years ago, and the Camden ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Jonathan Holloway, who took over as Rutgers president during the COVID-19 pandemic and whose term has been marked by the university’s first faculty strike and pro-Palestinian protests that disrupted final exams last spring, will step down when his contract runs out next ...
ASBURY PARK - The Sea.Hear.Now Festival in Asbury Park ended on a high note this weekend with a spectacular three-hour concert by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. In their first-ever beach performance at Asbury Park, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame artist and his band delivered a dynamic ...
PISCATAWAY – Several firefighters from Piscataway’s New Market Fire Department have been awarded the Medal of Valor and Unit Citations for rescuing area drivers from flash flooding during a late 2023 storm that moved up the coast, putting their own lives in constant danger.The New Jersey State ...
Este artículo fue traducido con Microsoft Word y servicios de traducción en línea.CAMDEN – Cuando Minerva Chontal Vallejo llegó a los Estados Unidos desde México en 1995, no hablaba inglés y no aprendió completamente el idioma hasta que se fue a trabajar 14 años después en el distrito escolar de la ...
Leer en españolCAMDEN – When Minerva Chontal Vallejo came to the United States from Mexico in 1995, she spoke no English and did not fully learn the language until she went to work 14 years later in the city school district.But the Haddon Heights resident had earned her bachelor’s degree in ...
NEWARK — Property owners providing short-term rentals risk being fined up to $2,000 per day per violation if they do not register their rentals with the city, officials said.Mayor Ras J. Baraka announced the city is enforcing a law, approved by City Council in December 2023, that requires the ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Disinformation detox, Harry Potter's potions, a murder mystery and the Mafia.These and other disparate topics of innovative classes at Rutgers just might change the perception of higher education as a bunch of stuffy academics sitting around, puffing their pipes, clutching their ...
CAMDEN — After 102 years of selling its famous condensed canned soups, Campbell Soup Co. wants to drop the word “soup” from its name.CEO Mark A. Clouse made that announcement at an “Investors Day” meeting in Manhattan last week, saying investors will be able to vote on the proposed name change at ...
SYRACUSE, NY – Sparta High School alumnus and Syracuse University law student Billy Stoddard climbed 110 flights of stairs with a 50-pound sandbag Friday in remembrance of the first responders who answered the call 23 years ago on Sept. 11 and never returned home. “The 343 FDNY firefighters who ...
Cranford’s Alex Bernstein is excited to finally see the eight episodes he wrote for The Dog & Pony Show, which will have its U.S. premiere on Peacock, launching on September 15. Created by Emmy Award-winning writer Josh Selig, the hilarious 2D animated series features the adventures of a dog ...
NEWARK — A popular Japanese restaurant in downtown Newark has closed permanently because of repeated power interruptions over several weeks, the owners said.Kinjo, in a statement posted to its website, apologized to customers and said the owners decided to shut after careful consideration. Power ...
CAMDEN – Wasim Muhammad, the Camden Muslim minister who was sued for alleged sexual abuse by a former student, stepped down on Friday as president of the Camden City School District Advisory Board after citizens, the governor and even the district school superintendent called for his ...
CAMDEN –A 4.6-acre former industrial property at Kaighn Avenue and South Seventh Street has been proposed as an area in need of redevelopment by the city.The site, now a grassy field, would be turned into athletic fields for KIPP: Cooper Norcross High School, the school announced last year.On ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Geraldine Hawkins launched into a celebration after deftly placing her ball just inches from the pallina near the middle of the bocce court.Her hands were waving this way and her hips were swaying that way and it all concluded with a high-five with Melanie Ford, the director of the ...
Este artículo fue traducido con Microsoft Word y servicios de traducción en línea.CAMDEN – Compre pequeño y compre localmente el sábado 21 de septiembre, en un evento comunitario gratuito en el corredor de la Avenida Haddon patrocinado por la organización sin fines de lucro Parkside Business & ...
Este artículo fue traducido con Microsoft Word y servicios de traducción en línea.CAMDEN – La Sociedad Histórica del Condado de Camden tiene previsto comparecer el jueves ante la Junta de Planificación de la ciudad para proponer renovaciones a la Casa Benjamin Cooper de 290 años de antigüedad, ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – On Oct. 7, Shalev Biton was trying to sleep off a long night of dancing and partying at the Nova music festival in Re’Im, near where Israeli farmland meets the Gaza Strip. Explosions jolted him awake just after dawn, and he and friends were soon running for their lives in the ...
Leer en españolCAMDEN – The Camden County Historical Society is scheduled to appear on Thursday before the city Planning Board to propose renovations to the 290-year-old Benjamin Cooper House, near the Delaware River, to turn it into a museum.The boarded-up, three-story brick building at the corner ...
CAMDEN – Shop small and shop local on Saturday, September 21, in a free community event in the Haddon Avenue corridor sponsored by nonprofit Parkside Business & Community In Partnership Inc. “This dynamic event will feature a showcase of businesses of color in a lively marketplace atmosphere,” ...
CAMDEN – City Council, amid boos and jeers from the audience, approved an ordinance Tuesday night that would increase the amount of money it will pay to attorneys representing past and present city employees who face legal action. The legislation would appear to include the legal defense for ...
CAMDEN – For Peter J. O’Connor, the nationally known affordable housing advocate, the latest project of rehabbing the Northgate II low- and high-rise apartments is like aiding an old friend’s return to good health.O’Connor, founder and executive director of nonprofit Fair Share Housing Development, ...
CAMDEN – City resident Jajuan Flores was shot and killed on Friday, the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office reported Monday.Flores, 21, was found near 2500 South Eighth Street at about 2:34 p.m. after the Camden County Police Department ShotSpotter technology detected gunfire.Flores was taken to ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – At last week’s ceremony to mark the installation of the final steel beam in the construction of the first phase of the Health and Life Science Exchange (HELIX), DEVCO President Chris Paladino talked about how company vice president Merissa Buczny picked out the Portuguese ...
CAMDEN – A public outcry is expected Tuesday evening at the City Council meeting when a final decision will be made on an amended ordinance that would make it easier for the city to pay for indicted former Mayor Dana L. Redd’s lawyer bills.The ordinance, which was accepted on its first reading by ...