Three key business owners and representatives of two city arts groups have come together with a plan to enhance the look of the boardwalk. And they want the public to come out this weekend to help make it a reality. This Saturday and Sunday, volunteers are sought to paint various elements of the boardwalk in […]

In an effort to improve communication between the police department and the public, Chief Mark Kinmon is inviting citizens to a question-and-answer session in city hall Wednesday night at 6 p.m. This inaugural meeting of the Police Chief’s Advisory Committee is being held to keep the public apprised of goings-on within the department, Kinmon said. […]

A 36-year-old male from Asbury Park was shot once and wounded last night just before 9 p.m. on the property of the St. Stephen Manor apartment complex on Prospect Avenue. The victim was taken to Jersey Shore University Medical Center and his injuries are not life-threatening, said Police Chief Mark Kinmon. The victim was not […]

The city council may amend the parking ordinance to extend two-hour parking on Main Street. Two-hour parking rules are in effect from the Neptune border to Fifth Avenue. The city’s advisory parking committee is currently looking at extending the restrictions north of Fifth Avenue to Deal Lake Drive, effectively creating border-to-border two-hour parking. The purpose […]

Area residents are being asked to come together for a still important cause on May 6 — AIDS awareness. HIV and AIDS reached epidemic levels in the 1980s. Now, it is possible to live with AIDS but it is still a chronic disease, according to The Center’s founder and executive director Rev. Robert. F. Kaeding, […]

Bob Easin, 38, started working at Ocean Grove Hardware when he was 14. Now he and his wife own the place. “I came with the store,” joked Easin, who was already working there when Dave and Carol Gilliland bought the Main Avenue business 20 years ago. “I started working here when I was 14 in […]

Food trucks have been an American tradition for decades. But a surge in popularity over the past few years has resulted in gourmet mobile eatery options no longer limited to ice cream and hot dogs. Thanks to a few new businesses, the gourmet food truck trend is influencing the Asbury Park boardwalk’s pop-up eateries. The […]

Some of Asbury Park’s four-legged residents could enjoy more boardwalk time this year. The city council advised city attorney Fred Raffetto at Wednesday night’s council meeting to draft an ordinance extending the time of year dogs are allowed on the boardwalk. Currently, a city ordinance allows dogs on the boardwalk — as long as they […]

A special prosecutor appointed by the city council to investigate the conduct of housing authority members during the tenure of former executive director Mark Holmes has issued a sweeping exoneration of current authority members and “any Board member who may have recently tendered his or her resignation.” “They appeared to have exercised their duties as […]

Asbury Park High School’s department of theater and dance will ease on down the road to Oz this week as they perform their spring musical, “The Wiz,” in the school auditorium. “I think long and hard about the selection of the show each year,” said Gary Kilmer, show director and head of the department. Last […]