The season of giving will be extended through January at Hotel Tides. The Seventh Avenue hotel and restaurant will host a gift card exchange in support of Asbury Park’s newest nonprofit – Garden State Equality [GSE]. Founded in 2004, Garden State Equality is the state’s leading civil rights organization working to  ensure quality of life […]

The annual Langosta Lounge Christmas Day Community Dinner will run from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, organizers announced via a news release. Each year, owner Marilyn Schlossbach and her family give the staff the day off and organize the buffet style meal with the help of Pat Sherman of F.E.E.D.ing Frenz and a host of volunteers. Located on the […]

Asbury Park Municipal Court Judge Daniel DiBenedetto upheld the city’s noise and nuisance ordinance on Tuesday, in a case involving noise complaints filed against the city’s newest hotel. The Asbury, the 110-room hotel at the former Salvation Army building on Fifth Avenue, challenged the ordinance, set in place in 2010, as unenforceable, according to City […]

A Monmouth County grand jury has returned a two-count indictment against Asbury Park based attorney William Gallagher, for allegedly misappropriating more than $70,000 from clients,  Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced Tuesday evening. Gallagher, 70, whose law practice address is listed as 1321 Memorial Drive, is charged with one count of second degree theft […]

From finding ways to better engage the city’s youth to empowering the disenfranchised, a new collaborative group is working to establish solutions to keep the city moving forward. The new group is comprised of a handful of city residents, business owners and community leaders who have been meeting for months to organize Creative Asbury Park – […]

A group of local musicians have joined forces with singer-songwriter Pamela Flores [shown in featured photo] of Glass Fox Productions to produce a concert in support of actress Mariska Hargitay’s Joyful Heart Foundation. Created in 2004 following the content of fan mail she received from her role as Olivia Benson on Law & Order: Special […]

City resident Christine Rehman has been awarded an National Board for Certified Counselors [NBCC] Foundation scholarship in support of her pursuit of an Approved Clinical Supervisor credential. Rehman, who works at the Family Guidance Center of Warren County in Phillipsburg, was awarded $500, according to a written news release by the NBCC Foundation. As part […]

The weather outside may have been frightful but hundreds of city youth got special deliveries from some of Santa’s local helpers during the annual Asbury Park Toy Drive Toy Drop event, held from 9 a.m .to 2 p.m. Saturday at 574 Cookman Avenue, the landmark Press Plaza bank building recently purchased by Sackman Enterprises. An […]

The New Yorker calls his show “A flashy, bass-heavy, retro-futuristic take on the holidays,” and on Friday night Everett Bradley brought his Holidelic holiday show to the Paramount Theatre on the Asbury Park Boardwalk. This was a return home of sorts for Bradley [at right]. “When I pulled up I saw the Stone Pony and […]

As a self-described foot soldier in the civil rights movement Asbury Park resident Gil Caldwell, now in his early 80s, is not slowing down from the cause. The retired pastor [shown at left of Martin Luther King in photo at right] has marched on Washington, fought for voting rights in the heat of the Mississippi […]