Camden Top Stories
By LARRY FELD
June 26, 2024
NEW JERSEY - Tourist season in New Jersey brings life to our beaches. The Parkway becomes an automotive chess game with license plates reflecting exotic, far-off places like Michigan, Ohio, and Montreal. Most importantly, the season brings important dollars and employment to half a million New ...
CAMDEN – Big Picture Learning Academy, winner of the Camden Education Fund’s Second Annual FAFSA Challenge, was awarded $25,000 at the school’s graduation ceremony on Monday. The competition, based on the percentage of seniors filling out federal student-aid forms, was also won by Big Picture ...
MORRISTOWN / NEW BRUNSWICK – Saint Peter’s Healthcare System and Atlantic Health System, building on their shared history of collaboration and aligned mission, vision and values, have announced a definitive agreement to expand their strategic partnership. This significant milestone comes from ...
With the 2024 hurricane season officially started, the New Jersey State Police is urging individuals with disabilities to sign up for the NJ Register Ready- Special Needs Registry. NJ Register Ready helps people with disabilities in times of emergency such as hurricanes. Information about ...
WAYNE – The 17-year-old from Wayne stood, warming up, just meters from one of her idols, Reagan Smith, the 2019 world champion and former American record holder in this event they were about to race, the 200-meter backstroke at the US Olympic Time Trials. Sarah Rodrigues, on Tuesday night in ...
NEW BRUNSWICK - Yulissa Avila Martinez’s nearly two-minute-long rendition of a piece by 18th century Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi sounded the perfect note. It was soaring, elegant and emotional. And it nearly stole the show during last week’s commencement ceremony. The New Brunswick ...
CAMDEN – When Black or Latino entrepreneurs seek financing for a venture – particularly what may be perceived as a riskier food-related business – they may be forced to borrow from non-traditional lenders charging interest rates in the mid-20s, according to the Camden Food Fund. To address the ...
HOBOKEN - The Hoboken Police Department hosted a gun buyback on Saturday in an effort to remove firearms from local neighborhoods and reduce the potential for gun violence in and around the city. Funded by the City of Hoboken, the buyback was at Hoboken Police Headquarters beginning at 8 a.m.
NEW BRUNSWICK – A man who had been tormented by the day’s unrelenting sun emerged from behind the industrial-strength steel door with a rejuvenated spirit – and a fresh T-shirt, socks and underwear. The portable shower unit that took up residence for several hours Saturday on a craggy patch of ...
CAMDEN – Pilar Hogan Closkey, a professional engineer and planner, recalls working in Chicago in the late 1990s and hearing from the late Msgr. Robert McDermott of St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral about a job at a nonprofit he founded to restore dilapidated Camden houses and sell them to new ...
CAMDEN – The Battleship New Jersey is home again. After getting fresh coats of paint on its hull and other maintenance in the Philadelphia shipyard dry dock, the Camden tourist attraction on Thursday was pushed up the river by tugboats and reunited in the early afternoon with its berth on the ...
CAMDEN – The definition of remarkable came to life during the Camden City School District’s eighth annual remarkable graduates ceremony on Rutgers-Camden's campus on Thursday, June 20. There was Elijah Taylor, a Camden resident and soon-to-be graduate of Camden County College’s Gateway to ...
NEWARK — The Board of Education is demanding the school district get to the bottom of how a video of thong-wearing women promoting a now-canceled “Nuttin’ But Azz” basketball game was filmed in the gymnasium of West Side High School. At a meeting on Tuesday, school board members voiced their ...
NEWARK — Survivors of domestic violence incarcerated because they attacked their abusers and people serving lengthy jail sentences because they exercised their right to trial, are among the categories of people who may be offered clemency under an executive order signed by Gov. Phil Murphy on ...
CAMDEN -- Students who graduated from Camden Prep High School last week experienced many firsts during their educational journey. Many students in the class of 2024 were among the first in the city to attend a “Renaissance school” when Camden Prep opened in 2014 with just three classrooms in a ...
CAMDEN – The CEO of Camden-based Michaels Organization, a residential real estate developer, has taken a leave of absence the day after he was indicted with five others in what the state Attorney General is calling the “Norcross Enterprise.” At the center of the indictment was Democratic Party ...
CAMDEN – If you watched the Battleship New Jersey leave the Camden waterfront in late March, you bundled up against chilly temperatures and winds that made the cold biting. If you finish the circuit, and show up on Thursday afternoon to welcome the historic and storied battleship home, you probably ...
EAST RUTHERFORD — The New Jersey Hall of Fame unveiled its Entertainment and Learning Center at American Dream on Tuesday, June 18, before a crowd of supporters and inductees Tommy James, comedian Joe Piscopo (who gave us the famed Jersey joke "What exit?") members of The Smithereens, and four-time ...
NEWARK — Schools Superintendent Roger León on Monday said no alcohol was served at a “Superintendent’s Staff Fun Day” – an event for the district’s top administrators and their staff – held June 1 at an elegant venue in Warren. “Taxpayer funds” did not pay for alcoholic beverages because “no ...
CAMDEN – Jose Torres on Tuesday morning sat on his Chestnut Street front porch of about 15 years, looking across the road as government officials drove into a massive empty lot almost the size of a city block for a press conference. For years, Torres and his neighbors surrounding the property ...
CAMDEN — City Council President Angel Fuentes has a suggestion for any Camden restaurant that is considering going BYOB. “I urge you to take a bottle of wine and go to a BYOB restaurant,” he said during an informational meeting held Tuesday, June 18, in Camden City Hall regarding the city’s BYOB ...
CAMDEN – Senior citizens suffering from temperatures that will reach into the 90s may be eligible for free fans and window-unit air conditioners from Camden County. A county resident must be at least 60 years old and have a maximum annual income of $25,000 to qualify for the program. To ...
NEWARK — A basketball tournament advertised to feature scantily clad women at West Side High School next month was “not authorized,” despite a cheeky video from the organizer promoting the event, the West Ward Councilman told TAPinto Newark. An event page advertises the “Nuttin’ Butt Azz/NBA ...
CAMDEN – Democratic Party kingpin George E. Norcross III was on a conference call negotiating with the developer of the Victor Lofts condos, which held an easement on the view of the Camden waterfront that was impeding a Norcross development. In this remarkable business conversation, Norcross ...
CAMDEN – Restaurant owners in the city have been invited to a Tuesday morning meeting in City Hall to discuss Camden's new "Bring Your Own Bottle" law, which went into effect on Monday. The 10:30 a.m. meeting will be held in City Council chambers. A restaurant with BYOB status "means that the ...
SOMERVILLE - Several members of the Borough Police Department set up shop on Saturday outside the Somerville Rescue Squad building with work benches on the driveway apron. Each work station was equipped with hand tools and lengths of wood that would be cut into shorter lengths by young ...
CAMDEN – The Camden City School District and its advisory board president, Wasim Muhammad, will settle a child sexual abuse case for $2 million, according to an announcement from the plaintiff's lawyer. Muhammad, who was known as city teacher Don Walker, was sued for allegedly sexually abusing a ...
CAMDEN — April Rothmaller says enrolling in the Camden City School District’s Women of the Dream program — a nonprofit organization that teaches life skills, how to cope with trauma, and offers college preparation help, career guidance and workforce readiness — has changed the trajectory of her ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – A real-life storybook ending was playing out Saturday afternoon on Joyce Kilmer Avenue, where eighth grade English teacher Angelice Oramas was preparing to cut the ribbon on a little library in front of the Youth Sports Complex. Oramas’ lifelong love of reading was once unlocked ...
CAMDEN – A full-time student from New Jersey who attends Rutgers University-Camden and lives on campus will pay about $30,000 for room, board and fees for the 2024-25 school year, according to the university’s website. Although that amount is lower than the statewide average of about $39,000 cited ...