Hotel Tides will host their second annual pool party benefit for The Center in Asbury Park on Sunday, Aug.  3, from noon to 4 p.m. About 70 pieces of art created by Center clients at a recent creativity workshop will be on display and available for purchase at the event. Ten percent of all sales proceeds will be donated back […]

New Jersey state Senator Jennifer Beck and U.S. Congressman Frank Pallone have both endorsed the city’s effort to secure Green Acres funds for the preservation of an area on the city’s northern beachfront. The two have submitted individual letters of support addressed to Martha Sapp, the acting administrator of the state Department of Environmental Protection’s Green […]

The Asbury Park Police Department will swear in four new officers next week. Three of the city’s Class II Special Law Enforcement Officers, Jayvon Britt, Jonathan DiOrio and Lemar Whittaker, will be sworn in along side Officer Ricky Kirchgessner, who previously served the city in a class II position before he transferred to Camden County in […]

A new furniture and interior design store is about to join the ranks of new businesses along Asbury Park’s downtown Cookman Avenue. S.alt Design Co., is an interior design gallery whose style combines authentic, classic design principles and mixes them with a modern, industrial edge that is inspired by the simplicity of living at the […]

Allenhurst police added ten more drivers to their list of those netted in the borough’s pedestrian decoy program. Police issued 11 summonses over the three-and-a-half hour period the program was run at an intersection on Ocean Avenue over the weekend, according to Allenhurst police Capt. Mike Schneider. The tally included six summonses issued for failure to […]

An allegedly intoxicated Edgewater Park man injured two Asbury Park police offers while he was being arrested after he reportedly brandished a handgun and falsely impersonated an officer, police said Friday. Anthony Kennedy, 26, faces charges of impersonating a police officer, aggravated assault, aggravated assault on a police officer, resisting arrest, unlawful possession of a […]

Toast owner Amy Russo will open another of her breakfast and lunch restaurants in Red Bank in the current location of the Broadway Diner [right] on Monmouth Street. The Asbury Park restauranteur [shown above in Toast Asbury] said she expects ownership to formally transfer by the end of the month. The Red Bank restaurant will […]

Waterfront redeveloper iStar Residential has removed the surfboard it placed on the North End beach. The surfboards were placed at the beginning of July on sites throughout the waterfront  to represent future projects the redeveloper will bring to the city. “Every surfboard represents a future project that we are working on, or will be working on, […]

The Central Avenue street sign at the corner of Third Avenue in Asbury Park has been replaced. A production crew from The Wendy Williams Show filmed a segment for Williams’ upcoming 50th birthday episode that unveiled a new street sign that reads “Wendy Williams Way.” Williams, a TV personality and talk show host, grew up […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, One of the most important accomplishments that a governmental body can do is to preserve and protect the land they live on, the waters they live near, and all natural resources which sustain life for the peoples they represent. Preserving natural areas is critical to the quality of the air we breathe, the water we […]