NEWS
March 30, 2012 | Matt Huston FOR THE INQUIRER
CAMDEN - Bigger isn't always better, especially when it comes to attractions for Adventure Aquarium's smallest visitors. "KidZone," which opens Saturday, is the aquarium's most child-accessible exhibit space yet. The underwater windows are closer to the ground, the rooms encourage interaction, and the sea creatures are relatively small. But they all have their quirks. Any child who remembers the film Finding Nemo will recognize the display's orange-and-white clown fish, or the outgoing cleaner shrimp - which, given the opportunity, will climb on your hand and inspect your cuticles.
NEWS
March 13, 2012
The battleship New Jersey is in another fight. This time it must ward off efforts to move the ship from the Camden waterfront to New York, in view of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Every effort should be made to keep the most decorated battleship in U.S. history harbored on the Delaware River, where it has been for more than a decade. Thanks to a sluggish economy and state budget cuts, the tourist attraction is struggling to make ends meet. Its state subsidy has plummeted from $1.7 million in 2010 to just $32,500 last year, not even enough to pay the monthly electricity bill for the 887-foot, 45,000-ton battleship museum.
NEWS
December 6, 2011 | By Maya Rao, Inquirer Trenton Bureau
The New Jersey Assembly on Monday approved restoring $139 million in transitional aid to fiscally troubled cities, including Camden, after legislative leaders used an emergency measure to put the bill up for a vote. The vote was 67-11 with one abstention. There was no discussion on the measure. The move comes more than five months after Gov. Christie, a Republican, cut all but $10 million in transitional aid from legislative Democrats' proposed state budget over concerns that they had removed oversight funding from the program.
NEWS
December 5, 2011 | By Paul Nussbaum, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Most of the Delaware River Port Authority's unspent $29.9 million in economic-development funds will go to non-transportation projects, according to a plan unveiled Monday. The biggest payment, $6 million, is slated for a new cancer center at Cooper University Hospital, whose board chairman is South Jersey Democratic power broker George Norcross. The DRPA has delayed for more than a year a decision on what to do with its unspent economic-development money, the remnants of about $500 million borrowed and spent over the past 13 years for projects such as sports stadiums, concert halls and museums.
NEWS
December 2, 2011 | By Monica Peters, For The Inquirer
Eat breakfast with Scuba Santa and watch him dive into the holiday spirit as the Adventure Aquarium presents its seasonal celebration daily through Jan. 1. Watch Santa jump into the aquarium's 760,000-gallon Ocean Realm exhibit and swim with sharks, stingrays, sea turtles, and other fish. Once Santa hits the dry side, guests can join him and his helper inside the Winter Wonderland Theater for the "I Believe in Scuba Santa" show, and take photos with him weekends through Dec. 24. On Saturday and Sunday from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m., for an additional fee, kids can have a buffet-style breakfast with Santa along with mascot characters including Gill the Shark and the newest character, Bumble the Abominable Snow Monster.
NEWS
November 1, 2011 | By Joelle Farrell and Claudia Vargas, Inquirer Staff Writers
New Jersey residents feel safest in Atlantic City among three of the state's urban destinations for leisure activity. Although there have been two recent fatal carjackings in a casino parking garage there, residents said they would feel slightly more secure at the Shore resort than in Philadelphia or in Garden State cities known for their recreational options, a recent poll shows. But given their druthers, they would feel even better crossing into Manhattan. As for Camden, forget it. Among those surveyed, 64 percent said they would feel at risk there, with nearly half reporting that they would feel "not at all" safe, according to a Fairleigh Dickinson University poll released Monday.
NEWS
September 15, 2011 | By Claudia Vargas, Inquirer Staff Writer
What started with a retired Camden police corporal's counseling one at-risk youth in April has grown into a city-run prisoner reentry program that has put 14 formerly incarcerated men to work. The men, who were recruited by Camden's new Office of Prevention and Reentry, are working with the Camden Special Services District Clean Team, sweeping and raking city parks and its business corridors. One of the participants, Adrian Muse, 39, said the job keeps him busy and is a way to give back to his community.
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April 11, 2011
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NEWS
December 14, 2010 | By Paul Nussbaum, Inquirer Staff Writer
The summer ferry that crosses the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Camden could be in jeopardy as the Delaware River Port Authority looks for ways to save money. DRPA board members on Monday questioned using $1.2 million in bridge-toll revenue to pay for new or improved ferry docks in Camden and Philadelphia. "I seriously think we need to look at that," said Pennsylvania board member Robert W. Bogle. "Is it a project we need to continue to fund?" The River Link ferry runs during the summer between Penn's Landing in Philadelphia and Wiggins Park in Camden, and this year, it carried 159,638 visitors to such sites as the Susquehanna Bank Center concert arena, the Camden River Sharks ballpark, and the Adventure Aquarium.
NEWS
December 2, 2010 | By Matt Katz, Darran Simon, and Chelsea Conaboy, Inquirer Staff Writers
Between a shuttered restaurant and a vacant building with a hole above the door sits a little office with tall, green-trimmed windows. On the glass hangs a sign that reads "Re(think Camden). " Shawn Burke, 25, a product of Glendora and Marlton in the South Jersey suburbs, sits at a desk inside. The real estate broker has fallen in love with his adopted hometown, Camden, and particularly the neighborhood where he lives and works, Cooper Grant, the most stable in the city. Burke is working to sell and rehabilitate all but one of the properties on the largely dilapidated 200 block of Market Street, where he has set up shop.