With tomorrow the start of the three-day Bamboozle music festival, the main stage straddling the boardwalk on the north end appears this morning to be completed. Streets in the northern waterfront area east of Kingsley Avenue are already closed off. While security staff from festival organizer LiveNation are shooing away curiosity-seekers, the festival area was […]

Those who work at downtown businesses are not completely out of luck when it comes to parking this weekend. The city and the Chamber of Commerce are renting the Bangs Avenue parking garage and distributing one pass to each business downtown. The issue of parking for downtown workers was a hot topic at recent Bamboozle […]

The folks at LiveNation aren’t the only ones hosting live music shows this weekend. All over Asbury, bars and restaurants are holding their own special events to coincide with the massive Bamboozle festival this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Bamboozle’s organizers at LiveNation have said 20,000 to 40,000 people could come to town each day, although […]

A new gourmet market will open next month at the now-closed location of Plan B restaurant on Cookman Avenue. Andrew Vermilyea, 29, in partnership with his father Greg Vermilyea, says he plans to open The Speakeatery no later than the end of June. “It will be a gourmet market, with prepared foods and a deli,” […]

Officials from LiveNation are scheduled to deliver the final update on this weekend’s Bamboozle festival at tonight’s city council meeting. LiveNation officials held a public awareness meeting last Monday. For the full story, click here. They also held meetings later in the week for local business owners. Officials anticipate 20,000 to 40,000 people each day […]

With two days to go until the Bamboozle music festival commences on the Asbury Park waterfront, the event area is a hub of activity. Workers were on the scene early this morning finalizing the construction of the Bamboozle main stage, shown above, which straddles the boardwalk just south of the Asbury Towers senior citizen high […]

A Neptune woman was arrested on May 12 after she attempted to burn items given to her by her ex-boyfriend but ended up setting a building on fire, police have charged. Maria Isabel Navarro, 21, was arrested just after 7 p.m. that day after allegedly causing the structure fire on Ridge Avenue. “The fire started […]

Last month’s Asbury Park High School production of “The Wiz” was so successful, theater/dance department head Gary Kilmer is about to do cartwheels in the road — literally. Tomorrow at 2:30 p.m., Kilmer will cartwheel down Sunset Avenue in front of the high school, making good on a statement he made during rehearsals. A month […]

The committee of petitioners seeking a change of Asbury Park’s municipal government have encountered another setback. The group, led by Duanne Small, filed a lawsuit alleging city clerk Stephen M. Kay acted erroneously in rejecting a petition they filed seeking a change in the city’s government to be approved by voters at a referendum. Their […]

After a few shaky years, sales are steady in the condominiums in Asbury Park’s waterfront redevelopment zone — so steady, in fact, that Wesley Grove only has one unit left to sell, while North Beach has vacancies only in its third building, which was just completed last year. Wesley Grove and North Beach are both […]