Camden Top Stories
By MATT KADOSH
June 15, 2024
NEWARK — The city is ranked the nation’s worst for renters for the second consecutive year, according to a new report by Forbes Advisor, which says it analyzed 21 metrics within three categories across 95 major cities using the most recent Census Bureau data. Forbes gave Newark a total score of ...
NEWARK — Water service has been restored at 22 apartment locations in four of Newark’s wards after two days without it. The shutoffs were due to a property owner’s bill of nearly $1 million, according to the city’s Department of Water and Sewer Utilities. However, it appeared that by Friday ...
HOBOKEN - Pier 11 in Hoboken has for the past seven summers been the home to a colony of common terns — a type of seabird that migrates north in the spring after wintering in tropical regions. They can often be seen acrobatically diving into the water to catch small surface-level fish. The ...
CAMDEN – Since 2018, Virtua Medical Group’s pediatric mobile services van has visited Camden and found that about 14% of the city’s children examined had elevated lead levels in their blood – a proportion several times higher than the national or New Jersey averages. High lead levels in the ...
WOODBRIDGE – Two police officers were wounded in a shootout with an armed man in the parking area between Royal Albert Banquet Hall and Raritan Hotel, off King George Post Road in the Fords section. A couple of well-placed police sources told TAPinto Woodbridge that the unidentified suspect was ...
NEWARK — Water has stopped flowing and toilets aren't flushing at 22 locations in four of the city’s five wards due to one landlord’s nonpayment of nearly $1 million, according to a city official. And residents are fuming because of it. Joysalon Fulton, who said she is forming a tenants’ ...
CAMDEN - Real life is not always a fairy tale, says Samir Nichols, the executive director of the Camden-based nonprofit Superior Arts Institute. He said he injects this into the dances, plays, and films he creates as much as possible. “If we told a Cinderella story, she would look a little ...
CAMDEN – City Council member Jannette Ramos says she likes to talk trash. Specifically, how to properly dispose of unwanted household items or construction waste so that Camden becomes a far cleaner place than it is today. Monthly bulk-trash disposal days and Mayor Victor Carstarphen’s ...
NEWARK — Pro-Palestinian protesters gathered on the steps of City Hall on Wednesday and spoke against the clearing of their 40-day-long encampment at Rutgers University’s New Street Plaza. The Newark Solidarity Coalition organizers, who had demanded that the university divest from Israel amid ...
CAMDEN – A state Superior Court jury in Camden County last Thursday convicted a Burlington City man in the 2021 shooting death of 29-year-old Takwail Bailey of Camden, the Camden County Prosecutor's Office reported on Wednesday. Lesure Funari, 25, was found guilty of first-degree murder, ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – A ukulele has cozied up on a chair in the music studio. Colored pencils, sharp as tacks, are dutifully aligned in a cup in the art room. Tightly folded microfiber towels stand ready to wipe away the rigors of a yoga session in the exercise room. Creative outlets, creature ...
CAMDEN – When Tracey Sharpe graduated from Gloucester Catholic High School and left her hometown of Woodbury to go to college she thought she was on the path to becoming a lawyer. While an undergrad at George Washington University, Sharpe volunteered for AmeriCorps in Washington, D.C., working ...
NEWARK — The Newark Teachers Union’s membership has ratified a new contract that, if approved by the school board, will bring raises averaging 4.5% annually over its five-year term. The school board is anticipated to vote on the contract at its June school board meeting, district spokesperson ...
CAMDEN – Some may shudder when they recall conversations with their high school principal. Just such a conversation occurred about three years ago between Mastery High School Principal Andrew Anderson and first-generation American and then-Mastery High School freshman Alexis Sanchez. However, for ...
CAMDEN – Adalyn Duran says she wants to be an occupational therapist. Jahaan Green wants to work in real estate. Isabel Martinez-Velazquez would like to be an animator and content creator. Those students and their professional dreams, along with 48 other future and recent Camden high school ...
The Newark Board of Education paid attorneys $54,520 in a failed attempt to keep secret its contract with a developer to build a museum at a school that it had sold many years ago, records obtained by TAPinto Newark show. This includes $24,520 in fees charged by the district’s attorneys, as well ...
NEWARK — Gaza War protesters camped at Rutgers – Newark Law School took down their tents and left as university police surrounded them and ordered them to depart early on Sunday morning, according to protesters and university officials. Removal of the protestors, who coupled their demands that ...
WOODBRIDGE — Two aspiring dancers from local high schools made a stunning debut in an emerging rock artist’s recent music video. Teenage dancers Emalee Rizitis and Leilani Wiggins got a big break appearing in a music video for “Qoya,” from velvety-voiced “Roxiny,” a Rolling Stone-lauded ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – The zoning is the problem, Newark Mayor and gubernatorial candidate Ras J. Baraka said at the New Jersey Planning and Redevelopment Conference on Friday. “The zoning laws are what is prohibiting us from developing the way we need to develop,” Baraka, 54, said. “The state is ...
This is one in an ongoing series about Camden educators who were born, raised and continue to live in Camden. This series is sponsored by the Camden Education Fund. CAMDEN — Akirra Smalls, a first-grade teacher who is also one of the newest hires at Cooper Poynt Family School, briefly ...
OCEAN COUNTY - Mackenzie Giberson, of troop 50127, Manahawkin, was recently honored as a "Top Cookie Seller" by the Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore. Mackenzie sold over 500 boxes of cookies. "Mackenzie is now 11 years old and has been a Girl Scout since she was in the first grade," her ...
ROCHELLE PARK, NJ — After more than a dozen years working with The Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey (CIANJ) and COMMERCE Magazine, editor Diane C. Walsh is retiring. “I want to thank Diane for her many years of service and dedication to serving the business leaders of New Jersey, ...
To offer BYOB or not offer BYOB. Some Camden restaurant owners are asking themselves that question after the City Council adopted a Bring Your Own Bottle ordinance in May. The ordinance defines BYOB restaurants as those that sell food “primarily for consumption on the premises.” Among other ...
NEWARK – About 500 service workers at Newark Airport rallied for higher wages and improved benefits on Thursday with the backing of City Council and other elected officials. Workers with Service Employees International Union 32BJ gathered by the dog park at Terminal A and chanted slogans and ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Outdoor dining on George Street is returning with a beefed-up schedule of programming and newly created areas set aside for passersby to sit. The City Council voted at Wednesday’s meeting to close the road to traffic starting Thursday (today). Officials said, however, it was ...
SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD, NJ - Today, June 6, 2024, marks the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings along France's Normandy coast during World War II. American forces suffered over 4,000 casualties on Omaha Beach, the bloodiest of the five landing sites. World leaders, including President Biden, ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Two lines of girls raced toward the center of the courtyard at the Blanquita B. Valenti Community School one afternoon last week. And, when they met in the middle, they shared brief glimpses of when brightest shines their star power – their code word for self-esteem. “My star ...
CAMDEN - Diego Flores, an 18-year-old student at the Pennsauken Campus of Camden County Technical Schools and an aspiring film animator, says he finds few things more exciting than drawing and coloring. “There is just something about putting something like this together,” he told TAPinto Camden, ...
FLORENCE -- Construction work is moving along at the Project Freedom at Historic Roebling complex that will bring 72 barrier-free homes to Florence, Burlington County. With Freedom Village at Historic Roebling due to open in December 2024, pre-applications are rolling in to live in the complex, ...
CAMDEN – Community members were encouraged to join any of several committees working to envision a new $105-million Eastside High School that will be constructed on the site of the current school on Federal Street. But the community was not able to question district officials in person at a ...