NorthCamden.Org

Preview of a series on Newark, NJ and it’s struggles. Inspiring. Makes me pray for Camden.

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I will be starting as a college freshman at Camden County College starting the fall semester in September and I plan on taking Computer Engineering as a major. Whats the best computer engineering class a person can take to learn about this course as a major? First off, What is computer engineering? Any suggestions?

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Save Our Waterfront (SOW), in partnership with the North Camden stakeholders including Hopeworks, Camden Lutheran Housing Inc., Respond Inc., Grace Lutheran Church, and other members of the North Camden Steering Committee, are seeking to utilize the services of a professional design team to host, oversee, and facilitate a collaborative design and planning workshop with the [...]

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6000 Red Tulips will be planted the last week in October between the 700-300 blocks of State Street. This project is being organized by the State Street Fellowship–a group of organizations and community members who have come with the express purpose of betting these four blocks and to learn how to better work together. In [...]

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It looks like Evergreen will finally be torn down and the remediation begun! Thank goodness!

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I visited Northgate Park May 14th and wasn’t encouraged by what I saw.  FIrst, the gates were unlocked and children were playing in the park.  There were no workers present and the park is pretty torn up.  It seems to me that many of the promised improvements are pretty far off—check out the pictures.  Anyone [...]

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I was at a meeting yesterday with DPW.  One of the things that I learned during the meeting was the status of North Gate Park.  Apparently, yesterday, they were planning on pouring concrete and this was a big step.  The last remaining thing that needs to be done will be to install playground equipement.  They [...]

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Peter O’Connor from Fair Share housing is working on getting some funds unlocked (with the help of the City and the Judge hopefully) that would allow for some staffing and security funds to be secured for the next 15 years.  Peter has recommended that the North Camden organizations that want to be a part of [...]

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With the meeting last week in Council President Fuentes office regarding North Gate Park, I thought it would be good to get some information out here.  First, a schedule for repairing the park was presented (click here to see the schedule North Gate Park Renovation Schedule.) The schedule calls for the park to be completely refurbished [...]

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