A new liquor license for iStar Financial’s 110-room boutique hotel will be voted on Wednesday by the City Council. The city’s special development counsel Jennifer Credidio said the liquor license award is conditional, requiring a background check. Municipal background checks to investigate the source of funds used to purchase the license as well as state […]

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 approvals include […]

Meteorologists say we have a cool 70 degree forecast with a low chance of precipitation in the cards for Asbury Park’s annual Fourth of July fireworks display. Sponsored by iStar Financial and Madison Marquette, respectively the waterfront and boardwalk redevelopers, the fireworks are set to launch at 9 p.m. along Monmouth County’s top-rated beach. On […]

An Asbury Park man was arrested Tuesday on child pornography charges after Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office Detectives launched an investigation into a series of CyberTips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni said in news release. Johan J. Murrieta, 20, of the 300 block of Eighth Avenue is charged […]

Asbury Towers residents Gail Brisson, Sister Celest Farley, and Ginny Randolph [shown above] were among the first to line up Thursday morning for North Eats’ offering. “This is exciting,” Brisson said. “I’ve been watching the development  and I think it’s great.” The food truck court’s soft opening kicked off at 11 a.m. with a mix […]

Asbury Park kicks off the Fourth of July weekend with additional parking spaces along its busiest roads. Acting on the city’s parking consultant report released in March by New York based Desman Associates, ‘the governing body implemented a number of different initiatives to better manage the City’s parking resources,’ said Councilman Joe Woerner, a member […]

More dangerous than any shark or Portuguese-Man-of-War, plastic straws are among the dirty dozen list of ocean debris on the rise. “The real monster out there in the marine environment is the plastics,” said Cindy Zipf, Clean Ocean Action Executive Director. According to COA statistics, there are more than 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic in […]

The Stone Pony Summer Stage is joining the Asbury Park Toy Drive with their Christmas in July campaign. Starting at Friday’s Southside Jonny and The Asbury Jukes Summer Stage concert attendees can bring a new unwrapped toy to the show and receive a voucher for up to $20 applicable at future shows or a 10 […]

A budding documentarian has been named the state’s Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] Boy Scout of the Year. Eagle Scout Alex Roberts, 15, of Ocean Township [shown above second from left] created a Holocaust Memorial Display and companion video featuring survivors’ stories for his Service Project. Designed to be used as an educational tool for […]

Vintage retailer Backward Glances is calling on your creativity. The Cookman Avenue store is among 40 retailers across the nation participating in Colossal Coachman’s contest. The hat design event features an elope Inc. top hat [shown right] participants can decorate in their own funky manner. Entrants can pick up their hat the local store. “We […]