A Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign to bring a full-service organic grocery store to Asbury Park’s Main Street has been successful. Cara Pescatore and Alex Mazzucca [above at the site], who own the From Seed to Sprout vegan cafe in Avon, set a fundraising goal of $25,000. That was reached by the Oct. 30 deadline and came in […]

At 7:30 a.m. Friday, Asbury Park will see the doors of Dino’s on Main Marketplace open for the first time. The market will offer mostly Italian items like fresh homemade ravioli, mozzarella, gravies, brick oven pizzas and preserves—but shop owner Dino LaSasso [shown above] loves food so much, he doesn’t want to be limited to only […]

From Oct 30 to Nov 12 the Asbury Park Police Department made the following arrests: OCT 30 • A 40-year-old female from Ocean Grove was arrested and charged with defiant trespassing. • A 23-year-old female from Ocean Grove was arrested and charged with possession of a syringe in the 200 block of First Avenue. • […]

Members of the Asbury Park chapter of the Stop the Violence Action Committee paid their respects to parents who had lost children to violence in the city at a memorial banquet Saturday night. The committee announced an Asbury Park chapter during a rally held in September. Stop the Violence has chapters throughout the state, including Camden and […]

Community stakeholders met at St. Stephen AME Zion Church Saturday morning to discuss the issue of violence in the city at a “Summit to End the Violence.” The summit, organized by St. Stephen’s Pastor Derinzer Johnson and Retired Asbury Park Police Lt. George Corbin, brought law enforcement officials, politicians, business owners and other city stakeholders […]

Main Street restaurant Cotija Latin Flavors will hold its last dinner service on Saturday before restaurant owner Arturo Montoya  [shown above] will shut the doors and look for a new Asbury Park location. Turns out Montoya, 33, an Asbury Park transplant by way of Columbia, Belmar, Jersey City, Miami and Neptune couldn’t come to agreeable […]

The FoodBank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties is in urgent need of donations, and for those that live in Asbury Park a drop-off location is close by. Eyes of the World, located in the Shoppes at the Arcade at 658 Cookman Avenue, is accepting non-perishable food items and monetary donations for the local food bank, […]

Several community stakeholders will meet at Asbury Park’s St. Stephen AME Zion Church Saturday to engage in a discussion of long- and short-term solutions to mitigate the issue of violence on the city’s Westside. George Corbin and St. Stephen’s Pastor Derinzer Johnson have organized the “Summit to End the Violence in Asbury Park.” The summit […]

Cibo e Vino restaurant, Italian for “food and wine,” has opened its doors on Mattison Avenue. The 85-seat restaurant offers moderately priced traditional Italian fare served “cicchetti,” or small-plate style—which is the Italian equivalent of a Spanish tapas house, according to restaurant co-owner Karen DeGiglio. Everything on the menu is made to order and patrons are […]

Asbury Park Police Chief Mark Kinmon [shown at right] withdrew his retirement papers Wednesday and will be back on the job starting Monday. “I’m staying on as police chief,” he told the Sun. “I’m going to stay in my position and continue to do all thing things we have been doing.” Kinmon, 45, has been […]