Camden Top Stories
By MATT KADOSH
July 19, 2024
NEWARK — Democrat district leaders from three counties decided on Thursday that LaMonica McIver will be the party’s candidate on the November ballot for the full term to replace the late U.S. Rep. Donald M. Payne Jr. in the House of Representatives. McIver, the Newark City Council president, was ...
CAMDEN – The Camden County Commissioners recently adopted a resolution that bans people who intend to commit a crime or threaten another person from wearing a ski mask or a balaclava on county-owned property. The resolution applies to areas such as New Camden Park, Pyne Poynt Park, Von Nieda ...
NEWARK — Two months after City Council said it “strongly opposes” the construction of a methane-gas-fired power plant in the Ironbound, the state Department of Environmental Protection announced on Thursday its approval of the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission’s application to build a backup power ...
CAMDEN – Davis Family School teacher Colleen Hall was moved by a simple bit of advice offered last week during a panel discussion at the Summer Institute for Educators, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce Southern New Jersey Foundation. A Ravitz Family Markets/ShopRite executive spoke about job ...
Breiner García, estadounidense de primera generación y residente de East Camden, dice que nunca pensó que algún día pintaría algo que miles de personas verían. "Nunca me hubiera imaginado hace cinco o seis años ser artista", dijo García a TAPinto Camden en una entrevista. "Mis padres eran ...
CAMDEN – Se está trabajando en una campaña para mostrar los negocios de la ciudad de Camden con un sitio web y una base de datos "Buy Camden First". La ciudad asignó hasta $183,514 en fondos federales del Plan de Rescate Estadounidense para gastar en el desarrollo de la iniciativa con DiLorenzo ...
CAMDEN — Hace diez años, cuando el Centro Kroc del Ejército de Salvación abrió por primera vez su ubicación de 120,000 pies cuadrados en Harrison Avenue en el sitio de un antiguo vertedero, Lenora Hammond fue una de las primeras en donar tiempo a las instalaciones. "Cuando comencé a ser ...
Leer en español CAMDEN – First-generation American and East Camden resident Breiner Garcia says he never thought he would some day paint something that thousands of people would see. “I would never have imagined five, six years ago being an artist,” Garcia told TAPinto Camden in an ...
JERSEY CITY - New Jersey’s senior U.S. Senator, Bob Menendez, was convicted in a federal bribery case on Tuesday. Menendez was found guilty of 16 bribery, fraud and extortion charges that prosecutors say reflect his actions to sell his office to foreign nationals and local businessmen in exchange ...
Leer en español CAMDEN – A campaign to showcase Camden city businesses with a “Buy Camden First” website and database is in the works. The city allocated up to $183,514 in federal American Rescue Plan funds to spend on the initiative’s development with DiLorenzo Davis Consulting of Margate, ...
Leer en español CAMDEN — Ten years ago on Oct. 4, when the Salvation Army Kroc Center first opened its 120,000-square-foot Harrison Avenue location on the site of a former landfill, Lenora Hammond was among the first to donate time to the facility. “When I started to volunteer here, I also ...
SPARTA – A New Jersey student performing on the “America’s Got Talent” stage will be aired on Tuesday, July 16 at 8 p.m. Mia Soleil Sanchez began the audition process for AGT in November with “numerous video submissions and an in-person audition in New York City. “After months of effort and a ...
HOBOKEN - The Hoboken City Council passed a resolution officially designating the common tern as the honorary bird of Hoboken. Common Terns are a species of migratory seabirds that have been nesting on Hoboken’s Pier 11 during the summer months since 2013. This designation comes after years ...
CAMDEN – Los niños sin seguro o aquellos cubiertos solo por la Parte A de Medicaid pueden recibir vacunas gratuitas para el regreso a clases esta semana. "Las clínicas son parte de una iniciativa única en su tipo para preparar a los niños y las familias del condado de Camden para el próximo año ...
CAMDEN – Citando datos preliminares de sobredosis de drogas, los funcionarios del condado de Camden dijeron el lunes que la disminución del 39% en las muertes sospechosas de drogas en el condado en la primera mitad de 2024 indica que el condado está ganando la batalla contra las sobredosis. En ...
Leer en español CAMDEN – Citing preliminary drug overdose data, Camden County officials on Monday said the county's 39% decline in suspected drug deaths in the first half of 2024 indicates the county is winning the battle against the scourge. In the first six months of 2024, 109 people in ...
Leer en español CAMDEN – Uninsured children or those covered by only Medicaid Part A can get free back-to-school vaccinations this week. "The clinics are part of a first-of-its-kind initiative to prepare children and families of Camden County for the upcoming school year," Camden County said ...
JERSEY CITY - In the more than three months since the demolition of the Pep Boys auto store on JFK Boulevard in Journal Square, union members have dutifully stood outside the construction site with a 10-foot high inflatable rat – a symbolic protest against development companies that do not use ...
PISCATAWAY – Copies of the original group picture featuring students in Piscataway High School’s Muslim Student Association posing with the Palestinian flag at a yearbook photo shoot will be distributed to club members by the end of the summer. District superintendent Dr. Frank Ranelli made the ...
NEW BRUNSWICK - Donna Gustafson assembled a collection of George Segal’s life-sized sculptures that cast the New Jersey artist as an ordinary man with the gift to capture universal themes of isolation and disconnection. She collected 220 objects, blending archival materials with works by ...
CAMDEN – La ciudad de Camden notificó el viernes a los residentes que el Oficial de Salud del Condado de Camden ha emitido una alerta de calor y una alerta de calidad del aire a partir del domingo y hasta el miércoles. Las temperaturas se proyectan, de acuerdo con la notificación, para ser: • ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Tears streaked down Adalberto Gaytán Florez’s face as he gently wrapped his 91-year-old father in a long embrace that was 18 years in the making. Gaytán Florez had not been able to hug, kiss and whisper "I love you" directly in the ear of Juvencio Gaytán Jiminez since making the ...
Leer en español CAMDEN – The City of Camden on Friday notified residents that the Camden County Health Officer has issued a heat alert and air-quality alert beginning Sunday and going through Wednesday. Temperatures are projected, according to the notification, to be: Sunday, July 14th ...
Leer en español CAMDEN – The Camden Planning Board on Thursday approved a plan to build a solar-panel carport over the EMR Eastern LLC parking lot on North Front Street. Nearly 30,000 square feet of the parking lot, across from Johnson Park, will be covered, according to plans submitted to ...
NEW JERSEY — New Jersey dropped six spots in CNBC’s “America’s Top States for Business in 2024” list, from No. 19 in 2023 to No. 25 this year. The Garden State’s overall ranking placed it below neighboring states New York (No. 22) and Pennsylvania (No. 17) on the list. New Jersey outranked ...
The Italian Americans of Newark's Ironbound neighborhood are ready to celebrate their community and culture this weekend with the 134th annual feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel —a festive showcase of faith, family, food and fun. The street festival will be on Oliver Street between Adams and Van ...
NEWARK — Cook. Eat. Learn. That’s what 10 student chefs from Marion P. Thomas Charter School and Newark Vocational High School will do as they travel to Spilinga, Italy, as part of a “sister city” partnership between Newark and the town of the Calabria region. They leave on Friday, July ...
CAMDEN – Qahhar Danford recuerda el verano nadando en la piscina al aire libre del Centro Comunitario de North Camden cuando era niño, y parecía que siempre era el más joven de su grupo. Danford, de 21 años, ahora es un salvavidas que supervisa a los niños que juegan en el agua donde él alguna ...
Leer en español CAMDEN – Qahhar Danford remembers summer swimming in the outdoor North Camden Community Center pool when he was a boy, and it seemed he always was the youngest in his group. Danford, 21, now is a lifeguard supervising children playing in the water where he once played. He is ...
NEW JERSEY — Dengue, a virus spread to people through mosquito bites, has infected at least 47 people in New Jersey this year, according to the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said, as of Thursday, there have been at least 2,559 cases ...