The Asbury Park Sun website seeks an editor who has a passion for fairness, objectivity and accuracy in journalism, as well as a passion for Asbury Park and its immediate surrounding areas. You will be responsible for breaking news and finding the newsworthy stories to tell our community. Some of the coverage includes night meetings. […]

The City Council meeting scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 25 has been cancelled. Although the agenda has been set for the Tuesday meeting, that meeting’s close proximity to the next regularly scheduled meeting on Dec. 3 leaves little room for city administration to turn around a new agenda with the Thanksgiving holiday in between, according to […]

The Ocean Township Police Department will host their first tweet-along of a police patrol shift on the day before Thanksgiving, Wednesday Nov. 26, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., according to a news release from the department. A tweet-along is a virtual ride-along that will communicate everything from the mundane to the serious over the […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, Often in church worship services, at the end of the service, the minister will say something like this: “The service is over, now the service begins.” It is her or his way of saying, now that the worship service is over, the congregation is now expected to go forth and serve others. I […]

A parked vehicle was struck by bullets in a confirmed shots fired incident in the city but no further injuries have been reported. Police received multiple calls alerting them to three shots fired at approximately 5:30 a.m. Saturday and located a vehicle that was struck with projectiles in the 500 block of Seventh Avenue, according […]

Three local police departments will host collection sites for citizens to drop off unused, unwanted and expired prescription medication as part of the “National Take–Back Initiative” medicine disposal day. The National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day aims to provide a safe, convenient, and responsible means of disposing of prescription drugs, while also educating the general public about […]

The Deal Lake Commission [DLC] is looking for volunteers to help clean Deal Lake on Saturday, Sept. 20. The end of summer cleanup will begin at 9 a.m. at the Asbury Park boat ramp, located on Seventh Avenue across from the 7-11 store. It is suggested volunteers bring gloves, wear old clothes, shoes, boots, or waders […]

From August 12 through 18, the Asbury Park Police Department made the following arrests: AUG 12 • A 58-year-old male from Union Beach was arrested and charged with shoplifting in the 100 block of Memorial Drive. AUG 13 • A 19-year-old from Asbury Park was arrested and charged with possession of CDS [marijuana under 50g], possession with […]

Neighborhoods across the country will celebrate the 31st annual National Night Out Against Crime Tuesday, Aug. 5. Since its inception in 1984 by the National Association of Town Watch – a non-profit organization that seeks to develop and promote crime prevention programs – the yearly event has become a time for members of the public […]

Lashawn Fitch, 23, Neptune was sentenced Friday to 40 years in a New Jersey state prison for his role in the 2008 murder of 24-year-old  Nathaniel Wiggins of Eatontown, according to a news release from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. Brothers Tahj J. Pines and Aron T. Pines, both of Neptune, and Kenneth M. Bacon-Vaughters, […]