Asbury Agile, Asbury Park’s annual web, mobile, and technology conference returns for its 4th installment on Friday, October 3rd, 2014, event organizers announced Monday. The theme for the conference is “The Process of Building” and includes a variety of talks from thought leaders hailing from companies such as Facebook, Etsy, Pivotal Labs, Huge, local branding agency M­Studio, and more. […]

Kids enrolled in the Boys & Girls Club summer camp were treated to a special basketball clinic run by two minor league members of the National Basketball Association Friday. Former Rutgers player J.R. Inman [above, at left] and former University of Pittsburgh player Tyrell Briggs [third from left] taught basic basketball skills and relayed the […]

A long overdue tax revaluation has shifted the values of properties across the city. As required by law, all properties within municipalities across the country are assessed to reflect their true market value. The last revaluation in Asbury Park was completed over 10 years ago. Property values throughout Asbury Park increased during that period. However, […]

Asbury Park’s first fully gluten-free bakery and cafeteria-style restaurant is set for a soft opening Saturday, August 16 and Sunday, August 17 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. My Momma’s will sell a variety of affordable food choices geared to people with celiac disease or who may have gluten [a protein found in wheat, rye and […]

The Monmouth County DWI Task Force is scheduled to conduct a DWI checkpoint on Main Street in Asbury Park Friday, August 15, to detect drivers under the influence of alcohol or drugs, according to Brielle Police Chief Michael W. Palmer. The checkpoint will be conducted from 11 p.m. on Friday until 3 a.m. on Saturday, […]

Heavy Tuesday night rains, an astronomical high tide, and an on-shore wind and tidal flow caused all three of Asbury Park’s coastal lakes to rise considerably and by Wednesday morning Wesley Lake reached across to flood cars and businesses along Lake Avenue. The storm brought between four- to six-inches of rainfall to the area within […]

Watermark owners have raised $20,000 to support the Lakehouse Music Academy’s effort to bring a full music curriculum to Hope Academy Charter School. The money will be donated to the “Play it Forward” foundation, a philanthropic program launched last year by Lakehouse Music Academy administered by the Asbury Park Musical Heritage Foundation. Funds were raised […]

The Asbury Park Historical Society will hold its eighth annual “Art on the Boardwalk” show this Sunday, Aug. 17, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the Asbury Park boardwalk between Sunset & Fifth avenues, just south of Convention Hall. Work from over a dozen sculptors, painters and photographers will be on display, according to a […]

Asbury Lanes is not the only bowling alley which has caught the eye of waterfront redeveloper IStar Financial. The corporation is acquiring 58 bowling centers around the country from sports equipment manufacturer Brunswick Corporation, according to an Aug. 1 report in the Commercial Observer website. IStar did not return a call from the Commercial Observer seeking […]

Asbury Park police are investigating an early Monday morning incident of shots fired by a man who was reportedly riding a bicycle at the time. Police responded to the call in the 700 block of Sewall Avenue shortly after midnight Monday, according to Deputy Chief Anthony Salerno. A 25-year-old city man was sitting on his […]