Small Business Saturdays begins this weekend and here in Asbury Park it comes with an encore of this summer’s Asbury Fresh and the Holiday Bazaar/Market at Fifth Pop-Ups. Created by American Express with a cardholder incentive program, the first Small Business Saturday was held in 2010 as a reminder to shop at local businesses. This […]

Holiday tree lighting, Chanukah and Kwanza celebrations are upon us. Many in the surrounding area include food, toy and coat drives [Check local municipalities for more information]. Below is a list for the Asbury Park Sun coverage area: 5:30 p.m. Saturday Ocean Grove Tree Lighting at the corner of Main Avenue and Pilgrim Pathway 7 […]

Paul Merker and Theresa Richards sat down just after noon on Wednesday for their Thanksgiving meal. On the menu were mash potatoes, cornbread, sautéed string beans with shallots, cornbread stuffing, candied yams, and of course the roasted turkey and gravy. The city residents, who are currently homeless, say the found about the At the Table’s […]

While a Tuesday recount of the Nov. 3 Board of Education [BOE] election figures changed tallies, it did not change the outcome of those who garnered the most votes for the three open seats. The new BOE seats will be filled by Angela Ahbez-Anderson, Kenneth E. Saunders and Sheila Etienne. Ahbez-Anderson ran on a ticket […]

The House of Independents grand opening kicked off at 7 p.m. Tuesday with a wide age-range of patrons filling the Cookman Avenue venue’s two floors. The House of Independents brings together a mix of theatre, dance, film, comedy, oddities, late night fare, and of course the music that placed Asbury Park on the global radar. […]

The Asbury Park City Council approved a resolution to pay former Department of Commerce Director Tom Gilmour close to $20,000 for unused vacation and comp-time Wednesday. Gilmour, a 14-year employee, was informed via a termination letter dated September 24 that his job would end October 30. A standing room-only audience of local business owners packed […]

The Asbury Park City Council is scheduled to meet Tuesday in council chambers at City Hall. A closed executive session will start at 4:30 p.m., followed by a public workshop session at 6:30 p.m. and the regular council meeting at 7 p.m. Public participation takes place at the beginning of the regular meeting. Items on […]

Experts, both local and those that are a part of the national landscape, will join in a week long symposium aimed at widening the job and educational opportunities for Asbury Park’s students, according to a news release. Presented by the school district’s College and Career Readiness Institute, the ‘Saving Our Students’ symposium kicks Monday and […]

The Asbury Park City Council is scheduled to hold a workshop meeting at 6 p.m. Monday in council chambers at City Hall. A public participation session is scheduled to take place near the end of the meeting, after comments from city officials. Items on the agenda for the meeting include: • Special Event applications include […]

When The Asbury, opens next spring it will be the city’s first new hotel in close to 50 years, according to a news release issued Monday by waterfront redeveloper iStar. Slated for a May 2016 completion, the 110-room boutique hotel at the long vacant Salvation Army building on Fifth Avenue is among the first of […]