Two tickets in the Asbury Park City Council race have filed their campaign finance reports detailing contributions received and expenditures made through April 12. The reports were due April 15. The One Asbury ticket filed by the deadline, according to the website of the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission [ELEC]. The A-Team ticket filed […]

A group of Asbury Park High School students helped load school-district books to be sent to Tanzania through the Footprints to Education Program and the WAMA Foundation earlier this month. The students are part of the high school’s Workforce Investment Board Program, and are being supervised by Charmaine Handler, structured learning experience coordinator, and Walter […]

A lifelong city resident, Rosetta Johnson is running for a spot on the city council. Johnson is running as part of the AP Out Front ticket, with running mates Clevette Hill, Shonna Famularo, Stephen Williams and Dorvil Gillis. Johnson, 53, was born and raised in Asbury Park and currently resides on Monroe Avenue. Her daughter, […]

Editor, the Asbury Park Sun: An established record of achievement is exactly why I support the Forward Asbury Park team. Our city has once again become a home that we can be proud of, a destination that attracts visitors and a model of development as the comeback city of the Jersey Shore. None of it […]

The dog park committee is pushing the designation of a possible park site to the first or second week in May, Councilwoman Sue Henderson said at the April 17 council meeting. Originally, Henderson said a location would be chosen by March 28. But after committee members realized a few of the sites they had chosen […]

After turning himself in, a Freehold Borough man has been charged with the shooting of two men in Asbury Park last night, one of whom has died, according to a news release from the office of Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni. The incident was not gang-related, the prosecutor’s office said. Rather, it resulted from a […]

The Boys and Girls Club of Monmouth County has selected Asbury Park resident Ijataque “Tay” McClain as its 2013 Youth of the Year. McClain will receive a $1,500 scholarship and compete against other Boys & Girls Club members for the New Jersey Youth of the Year title and a $20,000 college scholarship on June 3. As the new […]

The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office has released the names of the two victims of last night’s shooting. One of the men has died, while the other remains in the hospital. Orlando Rowe, 30, of Bridgeport, Conn., was pronounced dead due to multiple gunshot wounds at 9 p.m., about 90 minutes after the shooting occurred, said […]

Editor, the Asbury Park Sun: I feel some people are really out of touch with the truth. Forward Asbury Park is putting on events every weekend. You can stop in their office any day of the week from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. On April 6, they had a free Grand Opening at their office located […]

Four men were arrested this afternoon following a narcotics investigation, and one of them was found to be in possession of a handgun, Asbury Park Police Captain Anthony Salerno said. In the 10 block of Dewitt Avenue, between Springwood and Heck avenues, the police department’s narcotics and gang unit made four arrests during the course […]