With just three days’ notice, hundreds organized on the Asbury Park boardwalk in front of Langosta Lounge to protest the exploration for offshore oil and its potential to open the Atlantic Ocean to drilling for the first time in over 30 years. “Greeting from Asbury Park,” Mayor John Moor said as he opened the Sunday […]

The Asbury Park School District has announced Dr. Bernice King, the youngest child of civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, will be this year’s Black History Month Extravaganza’s keynote speaker. The free event will be held 5:30 p.m. Feb. 17 at the Paramount Theatre along the Asbury Park […]

The Asbury Park Board of Education voted this month to shift its election back to the spring. The vote to move back to an April election date was 6-0 with an abstention from Angela Ahbez-Anderson. Board members Corey Lowell and Connie Breech were not present. “The Asbury Park School Board and District are striving to […]

Max Weinberg’s generous donation to the Asbury Park Music Foundation [APMF] led to the launch of Thursday’s Charity Buzz online auction in support of youth music programs in the city, APMF Executive Director Matthew Hockenjos said. The opening bid is $2,500 for this seven piece custom matte black with gold hardware DW Collector’s Series Drum […]

Although a vote to enter into an animal control contract agreement with the Associated Humane Societies [AHS] of Tinton Falls passed by a 4 to 1 vote during Wednesday night’s City Council meeting, Deputy Mayor Amy Quinn, who cast the sole no vote, said she could not support an organization that puts animals down. “I […]

In their second of a series of town hall events slated for this election year, The Asbury Park Democratic Organization has announced Assemblyman John Wisniewski [D-19] will be their featured guest Wednesday. Wisniewski, who has served for close to 20 years in the State Assembly, was recently appointed state chairman of the NJ for Bernie Sander […]

With a goal of making summer recreation programs accessible to all the city’s youth, Asbury Park Mayor John Moor and the City Council have launched the “Mayor’s Rodeo for Recreation Challenge.” “Everyone has been asking me about having a Mayor’s Ball but I’m not really a tuxedo person,” Moor said. “When I learned that there […]

The Asbury Park City Council is scheduled to meet Wednesday in council chambers at City Hall. A closed executive session will start at 4:30 p.m., followed by a public workshop session at 6:30 p.m. and the regular council meeting at 7 p.m. Public participation takes place at the beginning of the regular meeting. Items on […]

The 2016 New Jersey Homeless Counts will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Jersey Shore Rescue Mission on Memorial Drive. Volunteers and advocates will join Monmouth County employees in helping homeless and at risk residents obtain social services help and gather data to gauge current homeless population figures. Those who […]

Newly elected Monmouth County-based Assembly Democrats JoAnn Downey and Eric Houghtaling have received their Committee appointments, according to a news release from the NJ Assembly Democrats.  Downey will serve on the Assembly Women and Children committees, Financial Institutions and Insurance, and Regulated Professions. “I am happy to lend my expertise as a former deputy state […]