The Asbury Park Police Department is searching for two males who allegedly held up a jewelry store at Main Street and Bangs Avenue then fled on foot. At about 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 30, two males entered the store, Police Chief Mark Kinmon said, where three employees were working. “They were talking about making [...]

Petitions are ready for candidates who wish to serve on a proposed charter study commission that will review whether Asbury Park should change the way it organizes the city government and elects its officials. City clerk Steve Kay said the petitions can be picked up at his office in city hall. Candidates must be a [...]

A man’s body was found off of Second Avenue last month after four people were rescued — and the Boys and Girls Club of Monmouth County is holding a Learn-to-Swim Program for youngsters on Tuesday in response to the accident. “We want to ensure that all kids are educated about water safety and proper swimming before [...]

Downtown Asbury developer Carter Sackman is hoping to further defer construction of a parking garage he and the city planned to build jointly. The city and the developer reached an agreement in 2007 to build the 404-spot garage, which would include more than 100 spots for use by Sackman’s residential tenants, as well as residential [...]

Motorists in the city can now pay for parking through their cell phones for an additional 35 cents per transaction thanks to the city’s mobile payment program. Asbury Park is the first municipality to use mPay2Park, a year-old company based in Wallingford, Conn., said mPay2Park systems manager Lori Beaudet. After several months of beta testing [...]

According to a statement on the website of the New Jersey American Water Company, the water-boil advisory has been lifted for the towns of Allenhurst, Loch Arbour, Neptune and Ocean Township. Asbury Park and Interlaken had the advisory lifted Saturday morning as those two towns draw their water from the Glendola reservoir in Wall Township. [...]

Yesterday morning, a county-wide advisory for residents to boil water before consuming it was downgraded to just 22 towns. Asbury Park and Interlaken were taken off the boil-water advisory list — although all the municipalities surrounding them still remain subject to the advisory: Loch Arbour, Allenhurst, Ocean Township and Neptune. That’s because Asbury Park and [...]

The boil-water advisory in Monmouth County has now been reduced to 22 towns, according to a statement on the Monmouth County government website. Asbury Park and Interlaken are not included in the boil-water advisory, which was put in place after three water mains [shown above] collapsed yesterday at the New Jersey American Water company’s Swimming [...]

(UPDATE: County government website now says Asbury Park and Interlaken not subject to water boil advisory. Click here for the Sun story on the updated information and link to county website. The story below is now out-of-date by this new information.) As the New Jersey American Water Company seeks to get its Swimming River treatment [...]

(UPDATE: City manager Terence Reidy said at 8:30 p.m. on Friday there still haven’t been reports of water issues in Asbury Park, although the advisory is in effect until further notice. The concern about water throughout the county arises from fear that bacteria could get in through broken pipes, Reidy said. In other news, Reidy [...]