Community Happenings
By NEILL BOROWSKI
May 1, 2026
CAMDEN – The Camden Dream Center is taking applications for its free summer program for literacy and Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) for students who will be in kindergarten through eighth grade in the fall.Part of the Children's Defense Fund Freedom School, the STEM program runs ...
CAMDEN – Warmer temperatures mean summer is on the way and, with it, the city's annual recreation program for youth.The summer activities include field trips, sports and swim lessons as well as simply hanging out at one of the municipal pools.Parents of children can get them registered now for the ...
CAMDEN – Sometime after midnight on April 18, 1775 - 250 years ago - Boston silversmith Paul Revere brought a message to the residents of Lexington, Massachusetts: British troops were coming. Sometime after noon on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, a town crier reenactor named Philip Zoebisch performed a ...
CAMDEN – The provenance of the "I Voted" sticker, ubiquitous on the chests of voters everywhere on Election Day, isn't fully clear.Janet Boudreau created a familiar one 38 years ago in Seattle and by 2000 her company was selling 100 million in each election year, according to an AARP article.
CAMDEN – City and county leaders joined the Camden Fire Department in welcoming a new ladder truck to the North 27th Street Fire Station at a ceremony on Wednesday, March 18. The new $1.5 million ladder truck will primarily serve the neighborhoods of Cramer Hill, East Camden, and parts of Parkside, ...
CAMDEN – An exhibit commemorating the Negro League in baseball, “A League Apart,” is free through March in City Hall.The self-guided exhibit will be available to view from Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.“Using authentic memorabilia, photographs and powerful stories, 'A League ...
ATLANTIC CITY - South Jersey Gas, in collaboration with Atlantic City Electric and the United Way of Gloucester County, will host an energy assistance enrollment event at the Glassboro Public Library on March 16 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.Eligible residents can receive direct support in enrolling for the ...
CAMDEN – Several events in downtown Camden are scheduled to observe Black History Month, according to the Downtown Camden Business Improvement District.They include:An exhibit of photography by Carter G. Woodson, sponsored by JPEG Gallery, is on display at the EJM Foundation, 303 Market Street ...
CAMDEN – Louis Banks didn’t hesitate to leave his Florida home to spend a frigid weekend in New Jersey with his teammates from the undefeated1985-86 Camden High basketball squad.“I had to get back to my guys,” he said. “Forty years ago, we all did this together!”Camden Mayor Victor Carstarphen — ...
CAMDEN – When the New Jersey Department of Transportation demolished the roughly 250-year-old Hugg-Harrison-Glover House in Bellmawr in the middle of a 2017 night, Jack O’Byrne, executive director of the Camden County Historical Society, said the group made a promise.“We said something like that ...
CAMDEN – Four community leaders in Camden will be honored Wednesday evening with the 2026 Camden County Freedom Medal “for their selfless contributions to improving their community,” the county announced.“The individuals selected for this prestigious award embody the values Dr. Martin Luther King ...
Something happens to people when they enter the row home at 753 Walnut Street in Camden, where a young Martin Luther King Jr. stayed in 1950.For seven months under the supervision of Pastor Amir Khan, justice-impacted staffers at Khan’s New Beginnings nonprofit felt it as they renovated the ...
CAMDEN – The Battleship New Jersey, with an overall length of more than 887 feet and a weight that can reach 57,540 tons, looms large where she is moored along Camden’s waterfront. But even giants like it occasionally show wear and tear, making the $750,000 grant the New Jersey Historic Trust ...
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 ...
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 – 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 ...
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 ...
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 – 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 – Eight-year-old Maliyah Antrom was asked a question at the Camden County Police Department’s Open Gym on Thursday at Morgan Village Middle School that she likely has never been asked so close to Halloween."Chocolate, vanilla or strawberry?"That's because Antrom was there when the police ...
Since 2014, when the first inlays were placed at the since-demolished Campbell’s Field, the Camden Walk of Fame has been a joyful celebration of the city’s success stories.This year’s honorees were no exception. On the afternoon of September 22, they gathered at Martin Luther King Boulevard across ...
CAMDEN – Nancy Walker-Powell was looking to have some fun this past Saturday. “I came to enjoy the music,” she told TAPinto Camden while sitting on the side of Elm Street near Main Street. But in other ways, the event held on Saturday was different from other occasions where live music can be ...
Esiyah Dixon-Waheed was not supposed to come back to Camden in a casket.The 26-year-old was killed on July 24, 2025, when, authorities say, a drunken driver moving in the wrong direction hit a car she was traveling in head-on near Hannibal, Missouri. Dixon-Waheed was planning to return to her ...
Leer en españolCAMDEN – Forget what you might have heard about seven being a lucky number. Ashly Estevez-Perez, a Camden resident who founded Movimento Tricolor, which provides services and resources to address barriers to the city’s Dominican community, told TAPinto Camden that six is her lucky ...
CAMDEN – In the roughly 50 years that LaUnique African American Book Store & Cultural Center owner Larry Miles has called Camden and the surrounding area home, he has met many, many people. But Lamont “Napalm” Dixon, a professional writer, performer, storyteller and frequent collaborator with ...
CAMDEN – Because rain is forecast for the weekend, the annual Camden Peace Games Basketball Tournament is being moved indoors to the Rutgers-Camden Athletic and Fitness Center at 201 Linden Street.“This free, co-ed basketball tournament is open to local youth as a way to leverage sports as a ...
CAMDEN – With temperatures reaching into the 90s, a dive into a swimming pool is a great way to beat the heat. As of this week, Camden residents can get that relief: the city officially opened its two public pools on Thursday.The pool at the North Camden Community Center at North Sixth and Erie ...
CAMDEN – Normally, dozens of Jeeps adorned with the Puerto Rican flag and other red, white and blue items are not seen at Cooper’s Poynt Park on a Sunday morning, nor is the aroma of roasting pork present, either. But then this was not just any Sunday – it was the day of the 68th Annual Puerto ...