The Asbury Park City Council concluded its annual assessment and approval of the city’s bar, restaurant and entertainment venue liquor licenses this week but not before implementing a new set of conditions. Moving forward every venue serving alcohol must clean the sidewalk and curb nightly after closing and the following morning prior to opening. They […]

City officials have announced free parking will be available at the Bangs Avenue garage on the first Saturday of every month. The 1 to 5 p.m. free parking runs in line with ‘First Saturday’ events administered by Asbury Park Chamber of Commerce and downtown venues. “Once the summer season concludes, we are planning on continuing […]

Asbury Park has won the NJ Sea Grant Consortium’s Favorite Monmouth County Beach accolade for the second year in a row. Celebrating its 10th year, the Sea Grant’s public poll garners thousands of voters each year, officials said. The survey was designed to encourage a little ‘friendly’ competition and camaraderie between popular Jersey Shore communities, […]

An Oxford University graduate student is putting out the call for Jersey Shore residents to participate in an environmental study focus group, taking place July 14 and 15 in Eatontown. Aviela Hochberg is a Jersey Shore native pursuing an advanced degree in Nature, Society and Environmental Governance at the United Kingdom university.   Hochberg’s environmental […]

Corner stores are notoriously known for their grab and go items but in Asbury Park there’s a push to ensure that some of those items are healthy food choices. The Healthy Corner Store initiative was created to support store owners committed to increasing the healthy food inventory in their venues and to encourage customers to […]

The Monmouth County Driving While Intoxicated [DWI] Task Force will conduct a checkpoint to detect drivers under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, Task Force Coordinator Chief Michael W. Palmer of the Brielle Police Department announced in a written news statement said. The checkpoint will be run from 10 p.m. Friday through 2 a.m. Saturday […]

The Collective Art Tank will host Last Chance, a closing fundraiser in support of Project REAL, a nonprofit support community center located at Fourth Avenue and Memorial Drive that offers programs to the larger LGBTQ youth community.   The Bangs Avenue gallery’s current show – Male Bonding celebrates gay male art through works by a […]

Six area residents were arrested for drug related activity along West Park Avenue last week, Ocean Township Police Department announced in a Tuesday afternoon news statement. Department spokesman Det. Lt Timothy Torchia said the criminal investigation bureau made the arrests between June 18 to 22 in the area of a local post office, bank and […]

A group of local community organizers and activists will host Families Belong Together, a peaceful rally kicking off 11 a.m. Saturday in Springwood Avenue Park. The event joins the over 600 nationwide day of action events being held in protest of the federal immigration policy that resulted in nearly 2,000 children being separated from their […]

Asbury Park’s own Chef James Avery celebrated the grand opening of his newly launched Farmly restaurant in Sea Girt on Monday. Avery [at right], best known as Gordon Ramsay’s sous chef on the popular Hell’s Kitchen television show,  served as executive chef at Asbury Festhalle & Biergarten before opening the Bonney Read on Cookman Avenue […]