The Asbury Park Fire Department took delivery of a newly remounted Ladder Truck Monday. The rig is dedicated to the memory of famous E-Street Band tenor sax man Clarence Clemons, Jr., Firefighter Robert Pasquariello said. When the refurbished truck was delivered, Battalion Chief Gironda put in a call to Bruce Springsteen to see what he might like […]

The Asbury Park City Council gave preliminary approval Wednesday for the 2014 Skate and Surf Festival to come back to the city of its birth May 17 and 18. Final approval is contingent upon festival promoters and city officials hammering out a contract that lays out all of the specific terms and conditions associated with […]

Asbury Park students will, once again, all be able to walk to school in the fall. Members of the Asbury Park Board of Education voted Tuesday to reinstate the Barack H. Obama building as an elementary school for the 2014-2015 school year. Asbury Park has always been a walking district, but when the Obama School […]

The Asbury Park City Council is scheduled to meet Wednesday in council chambers at City Hall. A workshop session will start at 6 p.m. and a regular council meeting at 7 p.m. Public participation takes place at the beginning of the regular meeting. There are no items on the agenda for executive session discussion. Items on […]

From March 19 to 25 the Asbury Park police department made the following arrests: MARCH 19 • A 27-year-old female from Asbury Park was arrested and charged with simple assault in the 600 block of Fifth Avenue. • A 36-year-old male from Asbury Park was arrested and charged with possession of controlled dangerous substances [CDS] […]

Three Asbury Park residences and one Neptune City residence were searched during three separate narcotics sweeps conducted in March by the county’s narcotics task force and local police, according to a news release from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. Sixteen individuals were arrested and police said $5000 in cash and over 2600 bags of heroin […]

Neptune-based Midtown Urban Renaissance Corporation [MURC] will sponsor a free Housing and Urban Development certified first-time Homebuyer Education Workshop Sat., April 12 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Robert E. West Community Room, according to a release from the organization. Asbury Park and Neptune residents who are interested in the purchase of a […]

City officials will consider placing the anti-heroin-overdose drug Naloxone in the hands of Asbury Park first responders now that Emergency Medical Technicians have been given the go-ahead to administer the medicine without threat of legal ramifications. “The City Administration has never been opposed to this program and was awaiting the green light that we would […]

Reconstruction of a southern portion of the Asbury Park boardwalk is coming along right on schedule, according to City Engineer Joe Cunha. Workers started to install decking on the southernmost section where pilings have already been placed [shown above] and will continue over the newly placed pilings in the days ahead, he said. Staten Island-based […]

Local anglers amassed alongside surfers, environmentalists and concerned residents that live along Deal Lake on Friday to call attention to aspects of the Elberon to Loch Arbour beach replenishment project they believe will irreparably harm a well-known fishing locale and potentially dam up the Deal Lake flume structure. Representatives from the Asbury Park Fishing Club, […]