Camden Top Stories
By APRIL SAUL
December 4, 2025
Camden High School's 27-8 football win over Newark's Shabazz High on Wednesday, Dec., 3 in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association's state final meant different things to players, coaches and fans. For senior standout Ibn Muhammad, the victory capped a day that started at 7 that ...
CAMDEN – The Coriell Institute for Medical Research announced on Wednesday that it has reached a five-year, $48-million agreement with the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) to manage 3.5 million biological samples from more than 200,000 people.Coriell, founded in 1953 in Camden, is a ...
CAMDEN – The city is preparing to borrow up to $50 million to fund its program to replace thousands of potentially toxic lead pipes that carry drinking water to Camden homes from the water main in the street.All lead water service lines must be identified and replaced in New Jersey by 2031, ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Lt. Gov.-elect Dr. Dale Caldwell said as the state’s next Secretary of State he will focus much of his energy on election security. And considering his father, the late Rev. Gilbert Caldwell, marched arm-in-arm with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. across the Deep South for voter ...
CAMDEN – A motorcade starring Santa Claus and a winter village with food, fire pits, amusement rides and music will be featured on Saturday, December 6, at Camden's annual Tree Lighting Ceremony.Festivities start at 4 p.m. and run through 8 p.m. at the Aquarium Loop Drive on the Camden waterfront.
CAMDEN – A new report on the so-called Yaffa illegal dump site at South Seventh and Chestnut streets says that despite the removal of contaminated soil from high mounds, the property's topsoil contains several pollutants and the groundwater has a concentration of metals.Construction companies over ...
CAMDEN – The New Jersey Department of Human Services, which faced limited funding and stopped taking new applications for child care subsidies in August, will reopen applications beginning in January.About 75,000 children will be eligible for the state Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP), the ...
CAMDEN – Construction of the new Ablett Village townhouses, replacing the 82-year-old brick housing project of the same name, will begin right after the new year, according to the developer coordinating the project.Concrete slabs for 12 buildings, holding 78 townhouses, are being poured and ...
CAMDEN – A sharp run-up in the average price of a Camden home over the last several years is great news for existing homeowners, but the impact could have a profound impact on the future of the city's economy.Like in other New Jersey communities, average home sale prices have risen steadily, ...
NEW JERSEY – The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey estimates that approximately 8.8 million travelers will use its airports and vehicular crossings during the eight-day Thanksgiving travel period that ends Dec. 1. All travelers, air or road, are encouraged to allow additional travel time or ...
EAST RUTHERFORD – New Jersey was filled with pride this past weekend as Garden State heroes were honored at the 17th Annual New Jersey Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. Hosted by Danny DeVito, the event took place on Friday, Nov. 21, at The Rink @ The Arena at American Dream and included a lineup of ...
NEWARK - A federal judge has terminated a nearly 10-year monitoring of Newark’s police force after ruling that the department has effectively implemented constitutional policing requirements for stops, searches, arrests and use of force. U.S. District Court Judge Madeline Cox Arleo lifted the 2016 ...
CAMDEN – As a young child, Kirah Boyd never saw herself earning a living by crocheting. “There was a friend I had in middle school who pulled out a crochet hook and some yarn,” Boyd said. “I was looking at her, like, ‘What are you doing?’”But once Boyd picked up the same tools, she said she was, ...
Camden High School rolled over Haddonfield 37-18 in the Group 2 state semifinal football game on Friday, Nov. 21. The win brings Camden one step closer to a feat the Panthers have never achieved — a state championship in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association tournament.They'll ...
TRENTON — Gov. Phil Murphy issued a writ of election on Friday to fill the vacancy in the U.S. House of Representatives for New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District.Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill resigned from office, effective 11:59 p.m. on Thursday.The 11th Congressional District includes parts of ...
CAMDEN – Because inclement weather is forecast, the city has moved its Turkey Giveaway indoors on Saturday to the North Camden Community Center.The event will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the center, 1000 North Sixth Street.More than 700 turkeys and 200 boxes of food have been donated by ...
CAMDEN – Designs for a new $8 million Camden County Multi-Agency Center (MAC) to serve those facing substance abuse or homelessness problems got a courtesy review on Monday by the Camden Planning Board.The 8,000-square-foot MAC, which will rise on an empty lot at Broadway and Liberty Street, is ...
CAMDEN – Call it a hunch.In March, Lt. Elias Pizzirusso, the Camden Salvation Army Kroc Center’s Corps Officer, had to decide how many turkeys to order for the facility's Thanksgiving Drive-Thru. It's an annual event held in the center’s parking lot the weekend before Thanksgiving that gives away ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Pat Sheehan, whose eight years as the city’s first and only woman mayor were marked by unflinching leadership and clear-minded decision-making in the face of turbulent times and frequent challenges to her authority, has died. Sheehan was 91.She had battled lung cancer and chronic ...
CAMDEN – A City Council salary ordinance calls for the mayor to be paid a maximum of $180,000 and would increase the pay ranges of several other appointed employees and Council members themselves.The ordinance, likely up for a public hearing and adoption at the December 9 meeting, is part of the ...
TRENTON — New Jersey users of social media platforms would gain a way to report fraud on their accounts under legislation released by the Senate Commerce Committee on Monday.The bill, S3017, would require the sites’ operators to provide a 24-hour, toll-free phone number to contact live customer ...
CAMDEN – As temperatures fall, essential locations – especially for those who sleep outdoors or in unheated buildings – are warming centers.When a Code Blue is declared for cold weather, the city's warming locations are established as temporary shelters for the homeless population, the city ...
The Camden High School Panthers defeated Wall, 43-7, to win the Central Jersey Group 2 sectional football crown on Nov. 14, 2025. Panthers quarterback Ahmad Jones passed for 269 yards and three touchdowns in the victory at home, with the stifling Camden High defense limiting Wall to only 34 rushing ...
CAMDEN – Nonprofit Hopeworks, known best for training young adults in Camden so they can pursue living-wage careers, also inspires some to become entrepreneurs.The business ideas and services from Hopeworks trainees, interns and alumni will be presented in the annual Pitch Competition on Saturday, ...
NEWARK, NJ - The Local Initiatives Support Corporation, a nonprofit organization based in Newark, announced it has awarded $40,000 in new grants to four community-based organizations that are improving the health and well-being of residents in Newark’s Fairmount Heights, Upper Clinton Hill, and ...
Camden, like many of the nation's oldest cities, had large expanses of land and dirt roads when the first sewage and stormwater lines were buried more than 100 years ago.Water from heavy rainfall tended to be absorbed more quickly than in today's asphalt-covered cities and, in our ancestors' era, ...
TRENTON — Self-driving cars, legal in other states but not in New Jersey, would operate here in test runs under a bill released on Monday by the Senate Transportation Committee. Trials would take place on closed and open roads under S4702, sponsored by state Sen. Andrew Zwicker (D - District ...
CAMDEN – City Council on Thursday is scheduled to conduct public hearings on several proposed laws or amendments to city laws, including one that underscores the responsibility of parents or guardians in the actions of their minor children. The ordinances, on second reading, will be up for adoption ...
SOUTH BRUNSWICK - Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman will not seek re-election next year, ending her decade-long career as the first African American woman to represent New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives. She has served New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District, which includes 32 ...
CAMDEN – Sometimes it's just plastic forks, knives and spoons, or maybe also several plastic packets of soy sauce. At times, it may include single servings of relish or special sauce.When you get home with the take-out food and pull it all from the bag, you'll often find those plastic surprises ...