APVibe and downtown businesses are celebrating a milestone this week — a new website devoted to informing visitors about events and activities in downtown Asbury Park. Started by Morgan Sackman [pictured, from left] and Rose Crean, APVibe is a marketing campaign intended to promote downtown Asbury Park as a dining and cultural destination. Both Crean […]

No events are scheduled at the Convention Hall complex after May 1, and a long-running issue over a requirement to install sprinklers may leave the building closed indefinitely. Closure would affect all areas, including the Grand Arcade [shown above]. The state fire code was changed in 2006 to require public facilities like the Convention Hall […]

Plans for a bar serving a gay clientele at the former Adriatic restaurant site have been changed to a “gay-friendly” restaurant, owner John McGillion said this week. The Candy Bar, at 1409 Kingsley St., was originally conceived as a bar to attract a gay demographic. McGillion wants to operate it as a restaurant instead because […]

Rehabilitation of the building that houses the historic Savoy Theatre could start as soon as May 1, as the planning board approved developer Carter Sackman’s plans for the project at its March 11 meeting. “I’m very excited about the project,” Sackman said yesterday. “I think restoring the Savoy Theatre and having a venue in the […]

Asbury Park’s city council is scheduled to meet in council chambers tonight, with a closed executive session starting at 5 p.m.; a workshop session at 6 p.m.; and a regular meeting at 7 p.m. The workshop and executive agendas were not available online at the time of this posting. Items on the regular meeting agenda […]

More than 1,500 guns were collected at gun buybacks in Asbury Park and Keansburg churches last weekend, Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa [pictured above at podium] has announced. The firearms collected from Asbury Park comprise almost half of the 1,581 brought in through the buybacks, Police Chief Mark Kinmon said today. “This buyback was another […]

An Ocean Grove woman was arrested on March 10 after she allegedly stabbed an acquaintance with a steak knife due to an argument over food at 2 a.m., Asbury Park Police Chief Mark Kinmon said. Lorraine Swan, 49, was at her boyfriend’s house with him and his cousin when a fight broke out, Kinmon said. […]

The planning board was scheduled to hear an application for a large-scale expansion of Johnny Mac’s at its meeting last night and later vote on the matter, but it was tabled because officials said plans came in late to City Hall. John McGillion, the Main Street tavern’s owner, said he was unaware of a deadline […]

From March 5 to 12, the Asbury Park Police Department made the following arrests: MARCH 5 • A 53-year-old male from Brooklyn, NY, was arrested and charged with robbery and unlawful possession of a firearm. MARCH 6 • A 44-year-old male from Neptune was arrested and charged with possession of CDS, manufacturing CDS, CDS distribution […]

The Charter Study Commission has created a website to keep residents abreast of developments in their process of studying the city’s form of government. The commission meets each Monday at City Hall, the West Side Community Center or the Springwood Center, depending on the week. The five-member body is tasked with scrutinizing the city’s form […]