With this summer’s over $20 million Community Development Block Grant funding moving housing development forward, the city’s revitalization shifts to its west side neighborhoods. The funding supports the Renaissance Village development of 64 residential units on the vacant lots between Memorial Drive and Atkins Avenue as well as the Asbury Park Housing Authority’s Boston Way […]

Newscaster Toni Yates will be the featured guest speaker during this year’s Third Annual Circle of Mercy fundraising breakfast to support Asbury Park’s Sisters Academy. Yates [at right], who serves as the New Jersey Reporter for ABC7 Eyewitness News, will deliver remarks during the 8:30 a.m. Oct. 7 free event at the Springwood Avenue middle […]

Tail waggers of all breeds and sizes will march in unison Saturday in support of Clean Ocean Action [COA]. The annual fundraising event is not only an opportunity for dogs to strut en masse, but helps draw awareness to the environmental nonprofit’s mission to keep ocean waters clear of pollutants. Held throughout the state, some […]

ShowRoom Cinema has joined more than 160 theaters across the globe in Saturday’s First Art House Theater Day. A part of Art House Convergence – an international consortium of independent, community-based, mission-driven movie theaters – ShowRoom will be screening “Danny Says” one week prior to its official Sept. 30 release date. The sneak peak screening […]

Serving as a qualifier for the Special Olympics of New Jersey, the Fifth Annual One More sporting competition returns to Asbury Park Sunday. The event features a triathlon, duathlon and aquavelo races open to athletes of all skill levels in order to foster understanding, acceptance, and friendship, organizers said. Kicking off at 8 a.m. from […]

Asbury Park business owner Reggie Flimlin has been named one of the state’s top 25 Leading Women Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs by Leading Women Entrepreneurs [LWE]. LWE is a media and events company working to honor outstanding female business owners in order to help foster a sustainable environment that unites and showcases their attributes and contributions. […]

Final approval for the Fifth Avenue Pavilion and band shell reconstruction along the Asbury Park was granted Monday by the Planning Board. In a unanimous vote, the Planning Board approved boardwalk redeveloper Madison Marquette’s plans to reconstruct the long shuttered band shell and build a neighboring restaurant on the rooftop of the structure that houses […]

There’s no secret that litter, particularly plastics, is a threat to the nation’s oceans and waterways. But what is hardly known, is a grassroots movement organized by individual chapters of the Surfrider Foundation that is beginning to take hold. Working to rehabilitate the worst offenders, the Rise Above Plastics campaign is aimed at changing dependency […]

The Orlando Memorial Grove Plaque reads in part: ‘May love, tolerance, and compassion bloom in this garden and spread throughout this community and our world,’ Asbury Park Environmental Shade Tree Committee’s Tom Pivinski read during Saturday’s planting and dedication service at Liberty Square Park. At 8 a.m., a group of volunteers set out to plant […]

New Yorker staff writer William Finnegan’s fifth book, an autobiographical chronicle about his passion for surfing, won him a Pulitzer Prize this year. Released in 2015 by Penguin Press, “Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life” received acclaim from avid surfers and non surfers alike. “Mr. Finnegan seems to remember every wave he ever surfed,” Dwight Garner […]