Members of Asbury Park’s Office of Emergency Management [OEM] will conduct a brief presentation on the city’s disaster preparedness plan during the workshop session at Wednesday’s city council meeting. Fire Chief Kevin Keddy will lead the presentation, according to City Manager Terence Reidy. Reidy will be on hand to supplement the presentation if necessary, he […]

America’s oldest national nonprofit conservation organization kicked off the ground work for their “Community ReLeaf” program in Asbury Park Saturday, planting two scores worth of trees on the west side of town. Residents and members of the city’s Environmental and Shade Tree Commission [ESTC], along with representatives from American Forests, the New Jersey Tree Foundation[NJTF], […]

For Asbury Park residents Daniel Weiss [shown above, at right] and John Grant [left], same-sex marriage rights are not just a matter of politics — they are a matter of life and death. The Asbury Park residents were married in Connecticut in 2010, and served as the lead plaintiffs in Lambda Legal’s lawsuit that argued barring same-sex […]

Members of the Asbury Park City Council Wednesday began the interview process for prospective candidates to fill the city manager position. A total of 123 resumes were submitted by interested applicants. In lieu of forming a committee, all members of council were given the opportunity to screen the resumes and select their top candidates, according […]

An Asbury Park resident has been accused of fatally stabbing a Neptune man. At 3:59 a.m. Sunday Asbury Park Police received an emergency call alerting them an individual had been stabbed and was laying in the street, according to Charles Webster, public information officer for the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. Police responded and found 24-year-old […]

Authorities say a Neptune man found in the middle of an Asbury Park street has been pronounced dead. The cause of his death is still unknown. At 3:59 a.m. Asbury Park Police received an emergency call alerting them to an address on Church Street, according to Charles Webster, public information officer for the Monmouth County […]

Five new police officers will soon be hired in Asbury Park. Friday evening, Democratic Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. announced the additional officers will be added to the force as a direct result of a Community Oriented Policing Services [COPS] grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice Office, according to a press release from his website. […]

A Monmouth County Superior Court judge on Friday declined to reconsider his decision in July that ruled 252 rejected vote-by-mail ballots in the May Asbury Park city council election should not be opened. The number of ballots at issue were enough to change the election results. Daniel Harris III, [right] an unsuccessful candidate on the A-Team […]

Facing uncertainty as to the future availability of Convention Hall, The Jersey Shore Roller Girls have decided to search for an alternate venue to hold their monthly bouts. “We are sad to lose our home with Convention Hall, we have been bouting at that venue since February 2008,” Kim Hartman, media and public relations director […]

By May of next year, beaches from Asbury Park to Avon-by-the-Sea will be restored to “conditions better than prior to Sandy,” according to a press release from democratic Congressman Frank Pallone’s office. Pallone’s office announced Thursday a $18.3 million contract to replenish the beaches was awarded by congress through a federal Sandy aid package. Work will […]