Asbury Park business owner Reggie Flimlin has been named one of the state’s top 25 Leading Women Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs by Leading Women Entrepreneurs [LWE]. LWE is a media and events company working to honor outstanding female business owners in order to help foster a sustainable environment that unites and showcases their attributes and contributions. […]

Final approval for the Fifth Avenue Pavilion and band shell reconstruction along the Asbury Park was granted Monday by the Planning Board. In a unanimous vote, the Planning Board approved boardwalk redeveloper Madison Marquette’s plans to reconstruct the long shuttered band shell and build a neighboring restaurant on the rooftop of the structure that houses […]

As the fall semester approached, Asbury Park resident Sam Gue took to social media in a quest for an alternative method of obtaining textbooks needed for two Brookdale Community College courses. Working toward an associate degree in applied science, Gue was falling short of money needed to purchase Health Information Management Technology textbooks. A call […]

The State Police has issued a missing child alert for a 15-year-old boy [shown at right] in his hometown of Elizabeth on Sept. 17. Sebastian Cardona is described as a Hispanic male, standing 5 feet and weighing 100 pounds. He has green eyes and blonde hair, according to the alert. “Sebastian was last seen on […]

There’s no secret that litter, particularly plastics, is a threat to the nation’s oceans and waterways. But what is hardly known, is a grassroots movement organized by individual chapters of the Surfrider Foundation that is beginning to take hold. Working to rehabilitate the worst offenders, the Rise Above Plastics campaign is aimed at changing dependency […]

The Orlando Memorial Grove Plaque reads in part: ‘May love, tolerance, and compassion bloom in this garden and spread throughout this community and our world,’ Asbury Park Environmental Shade Tree Committee’s Tom Pivinski read during Saturday’s planting and dedication service at Liberty Square Park. At 8 a.m., a group of volunteers set out to plant […]

An eviction notice has been delivered to organizers behind QFest, the state’s only LGBT film festival. Located in Ocean Grove’s Jersey Shore Arts Center [JSAC] on Main Street, QSpot Executive Director John Mikytuck released a news statement saying they have until year’s end to find a new home. The agency’s lack of “arts and education” programming […]

New Yorker staff writer William Finnegan’s fifth book, an autobiographical chronicle about his passion for surfing, won him a Pulitzer Prize this year. Released in 2015 by Penguin Press, “Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life” received acclaim from avid surfers and non surfers alike. “Mr. Finnegan seems to remember every wave he ever surfed,” Dwight Garner […]

When Freehold based artist Kortez created his “Life is Nothing Without Hue” meme it was a focused campaign to win the heart of a woman. Today the meme and its art is inspired by the reciprocal love of family and friends. “I created a meme, and the reality of her lack of love made me […]

Asbury Park City Council adopted the 2016 municipal budget Wednesday. The city will transfer $275,000 from its municipal Transportation Utility’s 2014 fund balance to offset the decrease in Transitional Aid from the state, City Manager Michael Capabianco said. “We will be using money that was left over and not allocated for anything,” he said. While […]