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 the 7 p.m. regular council meeting. Public participation takes place at the beginning of the regular meeting. Items on the agenda include: • Executive Session discussions regarding personnel […]

Deal Lake will undergo water quality testing for the first time in years, according to news release from the Friends of Deal Lake, an organized group of area residents who work to protect the County’s largest body of water. “After years of concerns and repeated requests for information about the quality of Deal Lake water, […]

Robert Legere Design Center and Robert Legere Home on Cookman Avenue are no longer in business. The sudden closing was announced with a notice on the doors of both locations stating “Robert Legere Companies is no longer in business and is permanently closed.” The businesses are owned by Steve Troy and Robert Legere (above). A […]

An Americans for Safe Access [ASA] national report released last week calls for an end to contradictions between federal and state guidelines with regard to medical marijuana policies. Showing that not only do opiate related deaths drop an average of 24.8% in states with medical cannabis laws, the report  notes that the Department of Justice […]

An Asbury Park woman charged for the fatal stabbing of a 23-year-old city man on Saturday night had her first court appearance Monday before Monmouth County Superior Court Judge O’Brien Kilgallen, according to news release from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. Jennie Cullum, 27, is charged with the first degree murder of Iquan Tyler, as […]

There are three critical elements to the proposed mixed use high rise Sackman Enterprises wants to bring to the downtown, project attorney Andrew Karas said during the plan’s unveiling Monday night at the Asbury Park City Council meeting. The first on the list would be adding much needed parking via a six-story garage. A total […]

Sackman Enterprises will introduce design plans to construct an urban farm grocery store at its current parking lot on Mattison Avenue during  Monday’s 6 p.m. Asbury Park City Council meeting. The site sits between Bond and Emory streets, Bangs and Mattison avenues. Enveloped by a proposed mixed use high rise, conceptual plans include reconfiguring the […]

The Asbury Park City Council is scheduled to hold a workshop meeting 6 p.m. Monday in Council Chambers at City Hall, located at 1 Municipal Plaza. A public participation session will take place near the end of the workshop meeting, following comments from city officials. Items on the meeting’s agenda include: • A review of […]

A duo in the thick of the Asbury Park late 70s music scene are opting not to rest on their laurels but to start a new venture based on giving back. The news broke Friday night at The Asbury during a joint birthday celebration for lawyer Charlie Stone, who once dabbled in entertainment law and […]

Police officers from the Ocean Township Police Department are now outfitted with body worn cameras, officials announced Friday. The department received 36 body worn cameras last month under a Justice Assistance Grant [JAG] Grant administered via the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office and New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, according to a news release. The cameras were […]