While area residents are stocking up on barbecue supplies and dusting off their red, white and blue duds, municipalities are planning a plethora of activities to celebrate Independence Day. Even though the holiday falls on a Wednesday this year, cities and towns in the Asbury area are holding all the usual summertime activities to fête the […]

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 […]