Camden Top Stories
By TAPINTO CAMDEN STAFF
December 24, 2025
CAMDEN – A total of $10,800 in grants will be made to the Camden High School football team and the Whitman Park eighth-grade basketball team, the Camden Health & Athletic Association (CHAA) announced on Tuesday.“Youth sports play an important role in shaping confidence, teamwork, and ...
CAMDEN – Leslie Morris says she often hears people say that you heal from trauma in your life.“You don't really heal from trauma,” Morris is quick to add. “It's part of life's journey.”Understanding your trauma and working beyond it is the goal of the trauma-informed program of Women of the Dream, ...
CAMDEN – Jazlyne Sabree was 7 when she took her first art class at the community arts organization known as Artworks Trenton. Sabree became Camden FireWorks’s program director about four years ago, then, on December 9, she was announced as the organization’s new executive director. She replaces ...
CAMDEN – Adventure Aquarium, at the city's waterfront, is welcoming two new arrivals just in time for Christmas: African Penguin chicks.The newcomers – hatched in the first week of November – are part of a species of penguin that has been deemed critically endangered by wildlife groups, with their ...
After winning their first two games of the season against Mastery Camden and Shawnee, Camden Eastside High School had its first boys basketball loss in an away game against Camden Catholic 49-46 on Dec. 18, 2025. Led by a 17-point performance by Brady Daniels, the Tigers were 14 points behind ...
HILLSBOROUGH - State Sen. Andrew Zwicker, a physicist at the Princeton Plasma Laboratory who has served the 16th District in the state Assembly and state Senate since 2016, announced Friday he will not seek to replace Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman in the U.S. House of Representatives when she retires ...
CAMDEN – For more than 150 years, manufacturing on the Parkside neighborhood property ranged from oil cloths to leather belts to pesticides before falling into disuse with vacant buildings and weeds.But plans now are moving ahead for the nonprofit Coriell Institute for Medical Research, founded in ...
CAMDEN – An expansion of South Jersey-based Virtua Health by combining with Wilmington, Del. -based ChristianaCare has been called off with a brief announcement just five months after news of the planned merger came out.“After thoughtful evaluation, both organizations have determined that they can ...
CAMDEN – Few emails, professionally speaking, are better than the one Yvanna Saint-Fort, the principal at Camden Prep Copewood Elementary School, said she received this past July regarding her students’ improved state assessment test scores.“A good friend of mine who works on our curriculum team ...
BAYONNE - A weekend snowfall followed by a deep chill did not discourage the crowd of officials at the symbolic groundbreaking for Bayonne's 1888 Studios, a state-of-the-art film and television production campus set to become New Jersey's largest. Bayonne is no stranger to the movie industry, with ...
CAMDEN – As Christmas approaches, gift giveaways and similar events abound in Camden.On Wednesday, from 5 to 8 p.m., Camden native and NFL linebacker Haason Reddick of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and formerly the Eagles, will sponsor his fifth annual “Lucky Christmas” event for students across ...
CAMDEN – Lolita “Lola” Sanchez spends much of her time thinking about Christmas toys and the children who receive them.Thousands of them.Not toys for under her tree, but toys for unwrapping on Christmas day by about 3,000 children in Camden and the area.Major Sanchez, one of the administrators of ...
CAMDEN – At an age when most teens are learning to drive, Cynthia Primas was learning something about her mother, three years before her death, that would chart the most time-consuming path of her adult life.“There were canvases to do paintings all around the living room,” Primas, who is the ...
CAMDEN – Meter parking on Camden's streets will be free beginning today, December 15, and continuing through January 1 as the city wants to encourage shopping and visits over the holidays.No curbside meter-feeding will be needed, the city and Parking Authority announced.However, illegal parking in ...
TRENTON — New Jersey restaurants and places that serve food would be banned from providing single-use utensils and condiments to customers, except upon request, under legislation sponsored by Sen. Bob Smith (D - District 17) and Raj Mukherji (D - District 32).The bill, S3195, would also require ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Eric LeGrand, a symbol of uncommon courage and determination following a spinal injury suffered during a 2010 Rutgers football game, has been named to the Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni.Joining LeGrand, the Scarlet Knights football standout turned motivational speaker, author, ...
CAMDEN — If a picture is worth a thousand words, then maybe the videos analyzed by a student-developed app will provide thousands more toward finding a way to lessen the impact of heavy rain on Camden. The app, named Cleanlet, was created by Nirajan Adhikari, a Ph.D candidate at Drexel ...
CAMDEN – Roosevelt Park, the gateway to Camden City Hall, is being prepared for a facelift.The city is entering into a one-year license agreement with the nonprofit Camden Community Partnership so that the Partnership can use New Jersey Economic Development Authority funds to improve the park.A ...
CAMDEN – The Camden Planning Board on Thursday is scheduled to review the final version of the Downtown Camden Master Plan, which took three years to compile and suggests changes that include better uses for land now occupied by the vast surface-level parking lots downtown.Before the board makes a ...
TRENTON — New Jersey highway drivers would be required to change lanes or slow down when approaching any stationary vehicle under a bill sponsored by Democratic Senators Paul Moriarty of Washington Township in Gloucester County and Raj Mukherji of Jersey City.Anyone found violating the law would be ...
With a new head coach and a few veteran players, Camden High School vanquished Winslow Township, 82-53, to usher in the boys basketball season on December 8. Jason Harrigan, who was an assistant under former coaches Victor Carstarphen and Rick Brunson, has returned to lead the Panthers, replacing ...
CAMDEN – Four members of the EMR Camden Community Benefits Agreement Committee who will help determine how to spend $3.25 million donated by EMR Metal Recyling are scheduled to be selected at Tuesday's City Council meeting.EMR, under a memorandum of understanding with the city, agreed to pay the ...
CAMDEN – Life appears to have thrown curveballs at city resident JonÁnthony White in 2025. White, asked to reflect during the city’s annual tree lighting and holiday celebration Saturday on the gifts he has received the past 12 months, said he had lost his grandmother and, at one point, was almost ...
CAMDEN – Desiree Grimmer of Berlin was in an unfortunate and unenviable situation in 2015, she said.She had kicked her heroin habit five years earlier, but now, pregnant and a frequent user of the painkiller suboxone that she was buying off the street, she was very concerned about the health and ...
SOMERSET — Assemblyman Joe Danielsen announced Friday that he has partnered with Sen. Andrew Zwicker to introduce legislation that would establish ranked-choice voting (RCV) for primary and general elections across New Jersey.Danielsen (D-17) said the proposal comes at a time when New Jersey ...
Santa met the state champion Camden High School football team at the city's annual Christmas tree lighting on December 6 in a celebratory motorcade for the team that culminated in holiday cheer at the waterfront.The Camden High cheerleaders, Mighty Marching Panther band, and the school's football ...
CAMDEN – Trailblazers in religion, construction and politics were a few of the Camden honorees recently named to New Jersey’s Black Heritage Trail, Dolly Marshall, the city’s historic preservation specialist, has told TAPinto Camden.The Black Heritage Trail was established by a 2022 law with the ...
CAMDEN – This year and next represent a sea change in the life of Camden native Mikal Hamilton, newly married and set to graduate with his teaching degree from Rowan University in the spring after student teaching in Pine Hill.Next fall, he said he wants to secure a spot as a health and physical ...
TRENTON — Motorists soon may risk $45 traffic fines – triggered by automated cameras – for parking or idling in bus lanes and bus stops. Penalties outlined in Bill A5612, which passed the Assembly Science, Innovation and Technology Committee on Thursday, also would apply to drivers who clog marked ...
For Ronsha Dickerson, executive director of the Camden Parent & Student Union, the mission was simple.“It's important,” said Dickerson, “that when our students do well, we show that the community will stand up for them.” City leaders had arranged for police escorts for the Camden High football ...