Fifteen Asbury Park sixth, seventh and eighth graders are signing on to participate in Interfaith Neighbors’ new Junior Entrepreneur Training (JET) program that will begin in February. The 15-session course will see students collaborate as they learn business-related skills that can help them with their current studies and future plans to graduate from high school […]

New York City actor and playwright Greg Oliver Bodine will return to Asbury Park to perform his critically acclaimed, one-man performance of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at a limited, one-night only engagement at Paranormal Books & Curiosities. The one-hour, one-man performance runs for one night only on Saturday, Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. The […]

At their Wednesday meeting, a majority of city council members voted to update an ordinance that gives preference to job applicants who have an Asbury Park address. If the ordinance passes, city residents — defined as any person whose permanent home is within city limits — would get even more priority consideration for non-uniformed classified civil service […]

Asbury Park police arrested a city resident Tuesday after they spotted him pointing a handgun at a woman near the Vita Gardens apartment complex. Officers of the Asbury Park Street Crimes unit saw Quamere Smith, 23, Asbury Park, raise a handgun and point it at a female subject who was sitting inside a parked vehicle […]

The election results from the Asbury Park municipal race are official as the Monmouth County Clerk’s Office has certified the results, according to the county board of elections office. All five members of the Asbury Together slate — incumbents Amy Quinn and John Moor along with newcomers Joe Woerner, Jessie “Coach K” Kendle and Barbara […]

From Thanksgiving day through New Year’s Eve and every Thursday in between, anyone who parks in any of the city’s metered spaces won’t have to pay to park. Asbury Park City Council members unanimously approved this year’s dates at their Nov. 12 meeting. Last year, the city offered free parking on Wednesdays during the holiday […]

An Edgewater man who allegedly injured two Asbury Park police officers as he brandished a handgun and posed as an officer himself was indicted by a A Monmouth County grand jury Wednesday. The court returned a seven-count indictment charging Anthony Kennedy, 26, with impersonating a police officer, aggravated assault and several weapons offenses, according to court […]

The Asbury Park Planning Board approved a recommendation Monday to change the downtown redevelopment plan to help make way for the city’s first craft distillery. The site of the proposed distillery is within the city’s Central Business District [CBD] redevelopment zone. The distillery is considered a light manufacturing use, and light industry is not permitted […]

An Asbury Park and a Neptune resident were arrested after walking out of a Target store with a full shopping cart of stolen merchandise they unloaded into a car in the parking lot before they went back in to the store to fill it again. Ocean Police responded to the Target Greatland store in reference […]

The Asbury Park Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] Harold Daley Post #1333 honored two of the city’s emergency responders at a Veteran’s Day ceremony held there Tuesday. Firefighter Paul Annunziata was named the 2014 Asbury Park Firefighter of the Year, and Officer Johnny Washington was named the Asbury Park Police Department’s Officer of the Year. It […]