Category: News Articles
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Repairman Found Time For a Second Career
If you are looking up at the skyline of the city, it’s hard to miss one of the four clocks that grace the top of City Hall. They’re a good indicator for 1-676 commuters as to whether they’ll be on time.
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City Plans to Restore Carnegie Library
The Carnegie Library, a long-vacant landmark so neglected that trees are growing inside it, could be restored as part of the city’s turnaround effort. The city is preparing to spend $250,000 to stabilize the century-old building at Broadway and Line Street, said Arijit De, executive director of the Camden Redevelopment Agency. Improvements would include a…
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Milan to Appear Over Firing Lawsuit
CAMDEN – Jailed ex-Mayor Milton Milan is scheduled to answer accusations in U.S. District Court today that he wrongfully fired an assistant business administrator who spoke out against his policies.
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Bruce Weiner – Obituary
Camden Courier-Post – August 5, 2003 WEINER, BRUCE August 4, 2003, husband of Donna (nee Solovay) of Cherry Hill, father of Jodi Graham of SC and Steven Weiner, son of Rose and the late Bernard Weiner, brother of the late Steven Weiner, grandfather of Lindsey Ilexis. Relatives and friends are invited to Services Wednesday 2:30…
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Camden Man Charged With Pair of Murders
A 40-year-old city man surrendered to police and was charged Tuesday in an East Camden shooting that left two men dead and a woman critically injured.
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Two Men Killed, Woman Wounded in Camden
Someone fatally shot two men and critically wounded a woman, then set a fire before fleeing from a home in the Cramer Hill section Monday morning, authorities said.
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3 Kings bring glee to children
The Three Kings Day celebration at the McGuire Gardens public housing complex in East Camden was put on by the Asociacion De Puertorriquenos En Marcha, a Hispanic social services agency in Camden. The group purchased toys and candy for 300 to 350 children, said John Fuentes, the group’s executive director. More than 80 youngsters had…
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Binding Their Ties to a Now-defunct Company
It was Christmas Eve 1976, and it was a sad day for Ralph Cirillo and his 124 colleagues at the Haddon Bindery, as the employees had just received layoff notices.
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Top Cop
Robert E. Allenbach ’95, Camden’s chief of police, is laying down the law in one of the country’s most crime-ridden cities. Since Allenbach took command in 1998, Camden’s homicide rate has dropped from a high of 64 in one year to seven for the first six months of this year. In addition, the average police…
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Camden files for bankruptcy
Saying the city would run out of money in two weeks, Camden officials filed for bankruptcy protection Monday in a showdown with the state over financial aid. Gov. Christie Whitman called the action “reckless.”
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Hurley’s Store Brought Luxury to Camden
Camden Courier-Post – April 6, 1999 By Harold T. Nedd The retail stores that gave Broadway in downtown Camden City its luster five decades ago can be found in the pages of the biography of Chuck Doyle’s grandfather. The book on the life of retail magnate William Leonard Hurley depicts a bustling shopping strip near…