Asbury Park Day returns Saturday at various locations across the the 1.4 mile community and organizers have themed it as a day to ‘Keep The Conversation Going’ from the West to the East side. Although recently named the coolest small town in the nation by Budget Travel and the Jersey Shore’s hippest town by The […]

No need to wait for hitting the deck on that cruise, Asbury Park boardwalk redeveloper Madison Marquette is launching Upper Deck Shuffleboard Club on Friday. Located on the northern upper level of Convention Hall [1300 Ocean Ave] above Anchor’s Bend, the new shuffleboard club “promises to luxuriate with leisure turning the pastime favored by septuagenarians […]

Just over 6 months after unexpectedly closing the award-winning Robert Legere Design is back. The creative duo behind the brand Steve Troy and Robert Legere [shown at right during a recent trip to Africa] will reopen Friday with a back to their roots brand. “It’s very much focused on our interior design clientele,” Troy said. […]

Kay Harris is an Asbury Park business owner who remains active with the local school district from which she graduated in 1970. She was among those who accompanied the students’ recent mission to Ghana, giving them personal journals to reflect on their experiences.   And while her personal journey and history led her from Clark […]

An Asbury Park man was sentenced Monday to 16 years for the December 2015 shooting death of a city man, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced in a written news statement. Diquan Speights, 23, was sentenced by Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Joseph W. Oxley. Speights pleaded guilty in February to killing Jamal Small […]

Fifty years ago a group of musicians redefined rock at one of those rare moments in history – The Monterey International Pop Festival. It was beautiful June weekend at the height of the Summer of Love and the festival drew crowds of 25,000-90,000 over the course of three days for a lineup of rock, pop, folk, […]

The State’s largest LGBTQ support organization will hold its largest fundraising event Saturday in Asbury Park. Garden State Equality, which moved its headquarters to Main Street in the city last year, will hold the Eighth Annual Equality Walk starting at 10 a.m. Saturday, rain or shine. “This event is an important reminder to folks visiting […]

The public is invited to attend the next step meeting in the City’s Master Plan reexamination process currently underway in Asbury Park. The meeting will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in City Council Chambers, located at 1 Municipal Plaza. The administration held meetings in February and March that sought the public’s input […]

Family, friends, and a few local dignitaries came together last weekend to celebrate the official grand opening of the state’s first commercial downtown distillery, located at the Jersey Shore. Asbury Park Distilling, an over 3,500 square foot vodka, gin, and soon to be whiskey and bourbon distillery, opened its adjacent Tasting Room doors on Memorial […]

The Asbury Park City Council is scheduled to meet Wednesday in council chambers at City Hall, located at 1 Municipal Plaza. A closed executive session will start at 4 p.m., followed by a 6 p.m. public workshop session and the 7 p.m. regular council meeting. Public participation takes place at the beginning of the regular […]