Camden Top Stories
By NEILL BOROWSKI
August 19, 2024
Leer en español CAMDEN – Now it’s the law: Landlords and property managers are as obligated as householders to properly dispose of solid waste at the curb. City Council on Tuesday voted to amend an ordinance to make it clear that anyone broadly connected with a property cannot dump waste on ...
ROXBURY – The recent capture of some tiny, but special, fish in a Kenvil stream has revealed something ironic: Water flowing from beneath one of Roxbury’s most polluted sites is amazingly clean. The fish in question are brook trout, said Raritan Headwaters Association (RHA) volunteer Brian ...
Leer en español NEWARK — A statue of Mother St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, revered for her work educating children, will be brought to where followers of the Italian saint can see it on their way to prayer. The new location for the Mother Cabrini statue will be on the grounds of Our Lady of ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – A New Brunswick landscaping company will pay about $29,000 in unpaid overtime wages to five workers following an audit by the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL). VLD Landscaping LLC has also been assessed about $32,000 in penalties and fees after the ...
TRENTON, NJ — New Jersey police departments began their annual “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign on Friday as state Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced $540,680 worth of grants to 110 agencies to help pay for their initiatives. Grants range from $2,100 to $8,750, with the ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Pat Hobbs has resigned as the athletic director at Rutgers University, breaking ties with a department that has a budget of almost $170 million - accounting for about 3% of the school’s $5.6 billion budget. Hobbs is stepping down due to health issues, according to a statement ...
MORRISTOWN, NJ — Wanna be in the movies? Your big break may be coming. A Manhattan casting agency has put out a call for New Jerseyans to be paid extras in Adam Sandler’s “Happy Gilmore 2,” a Netflix sequel to his 1996 box office hit comedy. Grant Wilfley Casting will hold a casting call from ...
TRENTON — To make up for a summer of repeated delays and cancelations, Gov. Phil Murphy (D) is giving NJ Transit travelers a “transit fare holiday,” from Monday, Aug. 26 through Labor Day, Sept. 2. NJ Transit train, light rail and bus commuters will get free rides, and monthly pass holders will ...
Leer en español CAMDEN – Nearly every weekday for the past six weeks, soon-to-be 10th grader Kayla Wilson's alarm clock has rung between 7:10 a.m. and 7:15 a.m., about two hours earlier than on weekends. “I get everything done (at home) as quickly as I can because I try to be as punctual and ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Cindy Braun can show students how to whip up a pâté in the three-credit Garde Manger course. Andrew Rubin can suggest the best entrée choices while planning a corporate luncheon for, say, 100 investment bankers in the four-credit Banquet and Dining Room Management ...
Leer en español NEWARK — A 1,400-unit development proposed for the former site of Iberia restaurant in the Ironbound is closer to being built. City Council on Tuesday gave its first approval to new zoning that would permit the development of four planned high-rises at 31-39 Jefferson St. and ...
CAMDEN – When the city’s streetlights in the Whitman Park section last year were inventoried in a pilot project, about 100 out of 250 needed replacing. Now the city wants every streetlight in the city checked, mapped and maintained in a digital database. City Council on Tuesday voted to award ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Three Asus-brand laptop computers patiently await their next Google search on one side of the room. Rows of 16.9-fluid-ounce bottles of water stand shoulder to shoulder on a table on the other side. A purring air conditioning keeps everything cool. The Day Center at 24 ...
Este artículo fue traducido con Microsoft Word y servicios de traducción en línea. CAMDEN – Victoria Pérez, quien creció en la ciudad y ha trabajado para el condado de Camden durante 33 años, tiene un trabajo que, a primera vista, puede parecer incómodo. Sin embargo, el trabajo de Pérez puede ...
Este artículo fue traducido con Microsoft Word y servicios de traducción en línea. CAMDEN – Internet está lleno de sitios web que detallan la importancia de los papeles de George Washington y Filadelfia en la Revolución Americana. Pero probablemente no haya tanta gente que conozca la ...
Leer en español CAMDEN — The Internet is filled with websites that detail the significance of George Washington's and Philadelphia's roles in the American Revolution. But there are probably not as many people who know about the significance of the Benjamin Cooper House. The almost ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Many nonprofit organizations – the grassroots little guys who offer care to domestic violence survivors, serve as stewards of the environment and more – face a never-ending battle. Securing funding for foundations, trusts and their representatives in Trenton and Washington to ...
Leer en español CAMDEN – Victoria Perez, who grew up in the city and has worked for Camden County for 33 years, has a job that, on the surface, may seem awkward. Yet Perez’s work may save a person’s vision or life. Perez is a communicable disease intervention specialist who helps patients ...
NEWARK — A package of bills signed by Gov. Phil Murphy (D) into law on Tuesday aims to strengthen youth literacy skills with a focus on grades K-3. Murphy signed the bills in Newark, where the school district has struggled with reading scores. School officials reported last September that only ...
Leer en español NEWARK — A resident’s lawsuit aiming to stop the city’s practice of banning people from City Council meetings has survived a motion to dismiss the claims. Superior Court Judge Stephen L. Petrillo last week ruled that Munirah El Bomani may continue to prosecute her lawsuit ...
CAMDEN – For more than 20 years, a Camden Fire Department rescue vehicle has answered calls, rushing and bumping over the city's pothole-plagued streets. That jarring has taken its toll and Fire Chief Jesse Flax said it is time to find a substitute for the damaged vehicle that has served ...
BRIDGEWATER - The Somerset Patriots hosted a team of volunteers from Operation Shoebox New Jersey who came to TD Bank Ballpark early Saturday to assemble personal care packages for shipment to US troops deployed around the world. The volunteers were joined by several Somerset Patriots players, ...
SPARTA – Several Sparta High School photography students had their talent recognized at the 2024 Sussex County Fair. Aria Dalio’s “Dance in Motion” earned a second-place ribbon in the Photography in Sussex County category. “I loved being able to incorporate my love and passion for dance into ...
Este artículo fue traducido con Microsoft Word y servicios de traducción en línea. CAMDEN – Cuando Pedro Guzmán, el líder recientemente jubilado de la Iglesia Episcopal de San Andrés, crecía en Santo Domingo, dijo que veía lo malvadas que pueden ser las personas unas con otras. "Vi mucha ...
Leer en español CAMDEN – When Pedro Guzman, the recently retired leader of Iglesia Episcopal San Andrés, was growing up in the Dominican Republic, he said he saw how evil people can be to one another. “I saw a lot of government persecution," he said in an interview with the help of a ...
NEW BRUNSWICK - Mariola and Artur Puchalski were so excited about the arrival of their baby girl, Claudia, who would be the third child in their family. However, when Mariola went in for a routine 20-week ultrasound, doctors discovered abnormal tissue in her baby’s right lung. Known as a ...
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, the queen of the track and field world, added another gold jewel to her crown when the New Jersey native blew open the women's 4x400-meter relay with an historic second leg to spark Team USA to an American record and a blowout victory on Saturday at the Olympics at Stade ...
Former Sayreville Middle School teacher and wrestling coach John Denuto has been sentenced to seven years in prison for sexually abusing minors after admitting to inappropriate sexual misconduct, according to multiple media reports. Denuto, 47, of Spotswood, pleaded guilty to endangering the ...
CAMDEN – The fire that destroyed the long-vacant Octavius V. Catto School in May is being investigated as a “likely arson,” Camden City spokesperson Vincent Basara told TAPinto Camden on Friday, August 9. A person “possibly homeless… was seen in the vicinity” of the former school building prior ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Bryan Mora spent part of his summer helping school children color panels that, when assembled into a mural, revealed full-bloom red, orange and yellow roses. The students were invited to add personal touches, so, words like “community” and “people” can be spotted in and around ...