Editor, Asbury Park Sun, The AP Dialogue Group’s Post Election Event was a great success. Thanks to the candidates who came, the people who brought food, all those who showed up, the “D” Group that planned the event, and Trinity Church who hosted it. I suggest that considering the disruption that most persons felt following […]

Asbury Park officials are warning area residents to expect loud noises during the duration of the Sunset Lake Foot Bridge restoration project. While the preliminary work has begun, demolition kicks off on November 28 and will be followed by test and permanent pile driving through December 30, according to a written news release. The Sunset Lake Footbridge […]

The Asbury Park community is invited to participate in the launch of the city’s West Side Choice Neighborhood Transformation Plan meeting being held 5:30 p.m. Monday at the Asbury Park Senior Center, located at 1201 Springwood Ave. The meeting is a follow up to the September 29 meeting held at St. Stephens AME Church on Springwood Ave that […]

Monmouth University’s student run Blue Hawk Records is readying to release their Ninth compilation, recorded at Asbury Park’s Lakehouse Music Academy on Lake Avenue. “The artists and students on the label gained valuable experience through our recording process at Lakehouse Studios,” said Blue Hawk member Matt Basilotto. The album- 9 Lives- was recorded under the […]

The Asbury Park Housing Authority and its Board of Commissioners have announced an open call for anyone interested in working Boston Way Redevelopment Project, located at Memorial Drive and Sylvan Way. “We’re extremely excited at the prospect of bringing employment opportunities to the Greater Asbury Park community,” Chairman Gregory Hopson said in a written statement. […]

The young men of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School received an important message Thursday afternoon from members of the Phi Upsilon chapter of the historic Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Opting to spend their spend their 2016 Founder’s Day celebration at the Bangs Avenue school, the fraternity’s brothers focused on sharing principles of perseverance […]

Asbury Park Communication’s Director Hannah Walker has nabbed the NJ League of Municipality’s Best Web/Social Media award. In a Thursday afternoon posting via social media [shown in featured photo], Walker holds the plaque given for the Municipal Public Information Contest’s for a Class B municipality; meaning with a population of 5, to 20,000 residents. The […]

The Asbury Park Toy Drive  began in 1999 as a way to support the needs of Asbury Park’s youth during the holiday season, and although that remains its core mission, the nonprofit has expanded its efforts to include an Easter holiday, Mother’s and Father’s Day events, as well as an annual backpack and school supply collection and […]

Herbs are about more than enhancing your favorite recipe and at 10 a.m. Thursday a new business will open along the north Main Street corridor offering the ins and outs of their medicinal attributes. Wildcraft takes root in the former Cameo bar located on the west side of Main Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues. […]

The Second Life Bikes and Cowerks collaborative venture at 21 Main Street will be dubbed Junction Hall. Set to open later this month, the redesigned historic 9,000 square-foot commercial space built in 1900, will serve as a hub, bridging the gap between the city’s east and west sides, Cowerks founder Bret Morgan said. Located across […]