Friday night’s multi-alarm blaze along Ocean Grove’s Main Avenue ravaged a number of apartments and business just two blocks from the oceanfront. As of late Friday night, officials had assessed damage to four shops and 7 apartments. The businesses included Village Kloset, Yvonne’s Café, Smuggler’s Cove, Fusion Jewelry and Barbaric Bean Coffee Roasters, Mayor Mary […]

A bright, warm classroom on the third floor of The Jersey Shore Arts Center  will Friday be home to a new yoga studio, ‘Ohana Rising. Lisa Brodrick, a certified yoga instructor and teacher trainer who has spent over a decade as a schoolteacher at Asbury Park’s Little Tots Pre-K, has leased the space for a […]

On Wednesday, March 19, at 3 p.m. members of the Wesley Lake Commission will announce their plans for the lake’s upcoming restoration project at a special press conference. The announcement will take place on the Pilgrim Pathway Footbridge located on the lake, the most easterly bridge between Ocean Grove and Asbury Park, according to a […]

After years of conducting meetings and events in rented and donated spaces, The Jersey Shore LGBTI Community Center, or QSpot, has found a space of its own in the old Neptune High School Building, now the Jersey Shore Arts Center. “This is our first home, said Maryann Buchanan, QSpot board chair. “We’ve been around since 2005. It’s […]

A group of Neptune property owners withdrew their petition seeking a referendum to repeal the township’s new rent control ordinance after the discovery that a number of signatures on the petition may have been forged. Blaming a vendor retained to collect the signatures, a representative of the group said today that they would refer the matter […]

Rental properties in Ocean Grove and Neptune Township that contain three or four units are no longer subject to rent control. The Neptune Township Committee [pictured above] on Monday approved an amendment to increase the threshold for minimum exemptions under the township’s rent control ordinance and established a rent leveling board to oversee rent control regulations. […]

The Neptune Township Committee has rejected all bids for replacement of a collapsed portion of the Wesley Lake retaining wall. All of the bids received by the July 17 deadline were rejected because they exceeded the available funding allotment and the engineer’s estimate for the project’s cost, said Leanne Hoffman, director of engineering and planning […]

The Neptune Township Committee has plans to change a rent control ordinance that was approved just two weeks ago. Members of the committee [shown above] introduced an amendment to the measure at their Monday meeting that exempts any dwelling with four or less rental units from the ordinance. The original language of the ordinance exempted […]

Emotions ran high during last night’s two hour public hearing on a rent control ordinance the Neptune Township Committee passed 5-0, with one committee member using an expletive on the record. Under the ordinance, rent increases in Ocean Grove and Neptune will be capped by the regional consumer price index. A rent leveling board will […]

In front of a packed meeting room, the Neptune Township Committee last night approved a rent control ordinance by a 5-0 vote. Under the ordinance, rent increases are linked to the regional consumer price index. Rental properties throughout Neptune and Ocean Grove are subject to the ordinance. The ordinance establishes a five-member rent leveling board […]