Fitness in the Park will launch 11 am to 1 pm Saturday in Sunset Park, located on Main Street between Fifth and Sunset avenues, city officials have announced. The Mayor’s Wellness Committee event is cosponsored by the Sunset Lake Park Conservancy, with funding provided by the NJ Prevention Network. Aimed at offering fun and fitness […]

Get those beach chairs, blankets and snacks ready. The Asbury Park Film Initiative [APFI] and Shore Flicks have announced the summer free Movies on the Beach lineup. This mark’s the ninth year of films screenings on the Second Avenue beach in front of Langosta Lounge. The Film Initiative is a nonprofit founded in 2008 by […]

It is only week two of the Conserve Wildlife Foundation Summer Learning Experience program, a part of the Asbury Park School District Summer Camp offerings, and third-grade students have had the opportunity to not only see an osprey up close and personal but to visit a local nest and learn to simulate building the predatory […]

A Memorial Service for James Famularo will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Asbury Lanes, located at 209 Fourth Avenue. Famularo, a city native with an over 20 year history of service to the community – particularly its youth, died in a blaze that ravished his Park Avenue home of […]

There was little fanfare Monday morning as the newest member of the Asbury Park Police Department was sworn into duty, but it was a lifelong dream realized but city natives and longtime municipal employees Cassandra Dickerson and Leesha Floyd attended the swearing in ceremony as a show of support. From the age of 5 or […]

It was an afternoon that brought State and Local officials together to walk the runway in support of Asbury Park’s recreation programs. Donning their best summer apparel, everyone from Sen Vin Gopal, Assembly Member Joann Downey and Eric Houghtaling to Councilwoman Yvonne Clayton and Sgt. Eugene Dello, took their turn glamming it up for an […]

A Monmouth County grand jury has returned a six-count indictment charging a Neptune Township man and his juvenile co-defendant in the February shooting death of a 10-year-old Asbury Park boy, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni has announced. Karon Council, 18, and co-defendant Jah-Del K. Birch, 17, both of Neptune Township, are charged with killing […]

Here’s a new accolade – Asbury Park has been named a smart city.  The distinction comes from The Bookmark, a tech blog from Verizon. “Cities around the globe are implementing internet-connected devices and software to improve quality of life,” according to the written report. “These ‘smart cities’ are widely considered to be the future of […]

The Asbury Park City Council honored a set of volunteer who tend to the city’s gardens and open space areas this week. Led by Tom Pivinski, the members of the Environmental and Shade Tree Commission [ESTC] were presented with a Proclamation that honored their ‘years of dedicated service.’ “The City of Asbury Park has been […]

The inaugural class of medical students at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University will spend July 19 talking with and working alongside Asbury Park West Side residents to better understand the community, according to a written news statement from Interfaith Neighbors spokeswoman Nancy Shields. The Community Immersion Day will be an opportunity […]