If you are in the midst of decking your own halls with the holiday spirit – consider entering the annual Asbury Park Chamber of Commerce Holiday Decorating Contest. While the Chamber’s Business Holiday Window Decorating Contest may be wrapping up,  there’s still plenty of time to enter the residential competition. Businesses along the boardwalk, throughout […]

Meandering through the newly expanded Lakehouse building, one can find tucked away on the third floor Boho Hair Salon – a girls only clubhouse of sorts focused on holistic beauty. The creation of New York City stylist Sally Perez-Monterrosa and husband Albie Monterrosa, Lakehouse Music Academy’s Director [shown in feature photo], Boho’s aims is to […]

Konscious Youth Development and Service [KYDS] has quickly established itself as a city staple, growing its holistic youth programs organically. In the two years since Monmouth University graduates Mychal Mills, 29, of Neptune [below left] and Rodney Salomon, 29, of Marlboro [below right], launched the nonprofit’s open mic night entitled ‘One Mic One Soul’ at Kula […]

A 3 a.m. Sunday armed robbery call to the Wanamassa neighborhood led the arrest of four township residents and the ongoing search for two other suspects in connection to the crime, Ocean Township Police Department announced in Wednesday afternoon news release. Officials are seeking the public’s help locating township resident Marcus Blackmon 19, [shown at left […]

A panel comprised of low income and homeless city residents will come together 5 p.m. Sunday at Trinity Episcopal Church to share their real life struggles with the wider community. Presented by the Trinity Food Justice ministry, the fundraising event is open to the public. “It is important to hear from our own community members […]

World Aids Day will be celebrated in Asbury Park with a Candlelight Walk and Memorial Service, according to a news release. This year, events across the globe will be centered on the theme –  HIV stigma is not retro, it’s just wrong, according to the official website. Launched in 1988 at the height of the […]

Each January, thousands gather for the Light Of Day Foundation festivals in Philadelphia, and New York and New Jersey cities in support of the battle against Parkinson’s Disease, the incurable disorder that attacks the central nervous system, leaving symptoms of slow movement, loss of balance and tremors. This year, the 17th annual Light of Day […]

The collaboration between the Asbury Park School District and Brookdale Community College continues with the new year launch of a free general education development [GED] certification and career training program, officials announced Monday. Entitled the Youth GED and Career Pathways Program, teens and young adults will receive comprehensive training for the GED exam as well […]

Asbury Park will not receive Levitt Grant funding in support of its Springwood Avenue Park Summer Concert series, Tom Gilmour, President of the Asbury Park Music Foundation [APMF] announced in news release Monday. The well attended series launched this summer with support from the Levitt Foundation grant but was voted out of the next round […]

Nine Jackson residents were charged during the investigation of a reported assault at a South Lincoln Avenue home Sunday where an underage drinking party was underway, according to an Ocean Township Police Department news release. When responding Officer Christopher Brady arrived on the scene near 2:06 a.m., he found a 19-year old male with injuries consistent with […]