Weekly bonfires on the Asbury Park beach are one major distinction between the city and other shore towns. Caroline Novack, a north Jerseyan who considers Asbury her second home, caught this scene on a recent spring evening. “I just bought a vacation place in AP at the end of April,” says Novak. “I grew up […]

Smoke-free public areas are one step closer to a reality in Asbury Park. The city council on Wednesday night approved an ordinance giving them the authority to establish smoke-free areas by resolution. The governing body has discussed designating Sixth Avenue beach as a smoke-free area first. The vote for the ordinance was four-to-one, with Councilman […]

Dogs and their human companions can now enjoy relaxed restrictions on canine beach and boardwalk access. The city council on Wednesday night approved an ordinance regarding dogs on the beach and boardwalk. “This will expand the time period each year when leashed dogs will be permitted to walk on the boardwalk with a handler,” city […]

Asbury Park restaurateur Marilyn Schlossbach and her husband Scott Szegeski are now the parents of twin girls. Schlossbach, 45, gave birth early this morning to sisters Hari at 1:23 a.m. and Rubi twenty minutes later, according to a post on the Facebook page of her brother Richard Schlossbach. The new parents [shown at right], along with […]

Listed on Wednesday’s closed session council meeting agenda was an item under land acquisition in connection with a parking deck. The deck in question would have been built on a piece of land located at the intersection of Bond Street and Bangs Avenue, according to city manager Terence Reidy [and shown in photo above]. Construction there […]

The business community was invited to a meeting in council chambers this morning to discuss last month’s Bamboozle music festival and its effect on local merchants. About two dozen business owners sat in the audience while city manager Terence Reidy, special events coordinator Tom Gilmour and LiveNation employees Scott O’Donnell and Sean Conner sat in […]

The city’s canine community will have a new place to run off-leash by this fall. Council last night approved a resolution establishing a one-year pilot program for a dog run to be located in the eastern quadrant of Library Square Park. The dog run will front on Heck Street, between First and Asbury Avenues. The […]

Asbury Park’s ReVision theatre company is moving to a new location — the former Greek Orthodox Church at 700 Grand Ave. — just in time for its fifth season. The church was built in 1949, according to a press release from ReVision. On April 1, its parishioners moved to a new church in Ocean Township […]

Asbury Park’s city council will meet tonight in council chambers, with a closed executive session starting at 5 p.m.; a workshop session at 6 p.m. and a regular meeting at 7 p.m. Items on the agenda include: • A final report on the Bamboozle music festival, which took place last month and brought about 90,000 […]

The police department recently welcomed six new patrol officers to its ranks, all of whom were recently laid off by the Trenton Police Department. The new recruits — Joe Leon, Crystal Everett, Thomas Gogan, Matt Czajkowski, Barry Hollo and Jonathan Cincilla [pictured above] — were sworn in last Friday and yesterday was their first official […]