The City of Asbury Park Housing Authority on Tuesday announced the organization’s standing has raised. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD] now considers the agency to be “standard.” For the past several years, it has been listed as a substandard troubled organization by HUD, but has consistently improved in its grading since […]

In the wake of a St. Louis County grand jury’s decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the August shooting death of Michael Brown, two federal elected officials representing New Jersey leaders have issued statements — with one local Congressman calling the justice system into question. In contrast to the more common reactions that […]

Oceanfront restaurant and bar Langosta Lounge will again partner with Trinity Church to host its annual Thanksgiving Day Community Dinner. Open to the public and free of charge, the dinner will be served from 11:00 a.m. till 2:00 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 27.  Anyone in need of a free hot meal or the company of the community is […]

Giving thanks by giving back is a Thanksgiving tradition at Asbury Park’s ‘southern family style’ restaurant, At the Table. For the fourth year in a row, homeless and senior citizens will head to the restaurant on the day before the holiday to sit, warm up, and eat heartily. “It’s just our little give back to […]

Students at Sisters Academy of New Jersey are prepared to save lives after completing a training session from the very individuals who respond after disaster strikes — the American Red Cross. Each of the school’s 60 students successfully completed a Red Cross babysitting, pediatric first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation [CPR] training program Friday. The six-and-a-half hour […]

Holiday festivities on the Asbury Park boardwalk kick off on Saturday, Nov. 29 with a performance of the Nutcracker, the annual tree lighting ceremony and the Ugly Holiday Sweater Party. Shops in the Grand Arcade will open at noon on both Black Friday, Nov. 28, and Small Business Saturday, Nov. 29 and boardwalk representatives are […]

An Asbury Park resident was stabbed on Thursday night at 6 p.m. in the 700 block of Main Street by a man he told police robbed him the night before outside of his home on Sewall Avenue. The victim, a 45-year-old male who did not call police after he was robbed of his wallet around […]

The City Council meeting scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 25 has been cancelled. Although the agenda has been set for the Tuesday meeting, that meeting’s close proximity to the next regularly scheduled meeting on Dec. 3 leaves little room for city administration to turn around a new agenda with the Thanksgiving holiday in between, according to […]

An amendment to one of the city’s redevelopment plans that would allow a microbrewery to set up shop on Main Street got the Asbury Park City Council’s initial stamp of approval. The business, Dark City Brewing Co., has a lease signed on a roughly 3,000 square-foot space at the corner of Main Street and Second […]

Two legislators from Monmouth and Hudson Counties have joined together to introduce legislation to curb the use of so-called “messenger ballots”. Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon [R-Monmouth] and Assemblyman Carmelo Garcia [D-Hudson] cited the wide-scale use of the ballots in Asbury Park, Atlantic City, Paterson and Hoboken as the impetus for the introduction of the measure, according to a […]