A Long Branch resident who nearly hit a police car while driving near the Asbury Park traffic circle was charged with weapons possession after police say they found a machete in his car. Vincent K. Johnston-Haughton, 21, was found with a “machete type knife” next to the center console of the car he was driving after he failed […]

Editor, the Asbury Park Sun, As the summer comes to a close and fall creeps up on us I look at Asbury Park and wonder, what does the future holds for us? It was another successful summer for the beachfront and major development is finally coming to to the West Side. The two projects on […]

Downtown Asbury Park’s newest bar and restaurant, Prohibition, is open for business. The restaurant is a modern take on the prohibition-era speakeasy. It offers prohibition-era cocktails and an American food menu in an elegant but casual atmosphere, according to co-owner Frank Gullace. “We want to make it as nice as possible, but for people to […]

An Asbury Park-based blog that features street portraits of people within city limits and couples them with short snippets of conversations had its first anniversary about a week ago. The blog, Humans of Asbury Park, was created by 28-year-old Kamelia Ani [shown above]. Ani took her inspiration from the popular Humans of New York site and, […]

An outflow pipe that allows water to exchange between Wesley Lake and the ocean is clogged with sand, and a pond weed is further trapping debris and garbage in the coastal lake. City public works employees identified the problem with the pipe Wednesday, according to City Engineer Joe Cunha, who heads up the department. Workers […]

Visitors to Convention Hall, the city’s most widely recognized waterfront landmark, can expect a good scare on select evenings throughout the month of October as they weave their way through a haunted maze on the hall’s main floor. “Haunted Hall” promises small, dark alleys that lead to a series of ten “scare rooms.” Each room […]

The Asbury Park Fire Department is set to receive a $24,700 grant through the Assistance to Firefighters Grant [AFG] program, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr., announced Wednesday. The AFG program is part of a coordinated, ongoing effort by the Federal Emergency Management Agency [FEMA] and the Department of Homeland Security in cooperation with the U.S. Fire Administration […]

Cowerks, Asbury Park’s technology hub, has announced a partnership with Microsoft to deliver a series of events geared to the local entrepreneurial and software developer communities. Over the coming months, Microsoft will lead classes and workshops and host open office hours and other events with the goal of providing support for area start-ups, design and developer […]

The Asbury Park City Council is scheduled to meet Wednesday in council chambers at City Hall. A closed executive session will start at 5 p.m., followed by a workshop session at 6 p.m. and a regular council meeting at 7 p.m. Public participation takes place at the beginning of the regular meeting. Items on the […]

A year and a half ago, staff of the Asbury Park unit of the Boys & Girls Club penned a vision statement to ensure the facility would remain a beacon of hope to the community. Through donations secured from two nonprofit organizations for building renovations, they are well on their way to completing that vision. […]