It’s now quite time to open those boxes of tinsel, stringed holiday lights and ornaments but as you begin you holiday shopping keep one thing in mind: The Quality of Life Committee could be judging you. As part of its Pride in the Park initiative, the committee, in conjunction with the Asbury Park Chamber of […]

For the second time this year, Monmouth County Culinary Education Center of Asbury Park graduate Emily Chapman won top honors during a Food Network competiton. Chapman defeated celebrity chef Robert Irvine, winning $40,000 in an episode of “Chopped: Impossible” that aired Thursday. “Chopped: Impossible,” is a tournament of champions competition that featured 12 previous “Chopped” […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, When Asbury Park’s last open space natural resource north beach area, Bradley Cove, is viewed solely as a source of profit and gain, there are serious consequences to our earth and peoples. This vision engenders immense economic inequality, injustices and can provoke acts of violence against the majority of humanity and our natural […]

A city resident was arrested Friday morning and charged with endangering the welfare of a child and obscenities to a person under 18, Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office has announced. William Egan, 27, of Mattison Avenue [at right] was charged with the third degree crimes following an investigation by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s High Tech Crime […]

The Asbury Park daycare owner charged with fraudulently receiving more than $40,000 in contracts with the Asbury Park Board of Education has been sentenced to three years in a state prison, Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced Friday. Sylvia B. Brodrick, 59, of Shadow Lawn Drive in the Oakhurst section of Ocean Township, […]

The Barack H. Obama Elementary School has launched their annual Holiday Gift Giving Program. Created 10 years ago, the program is designed to help the school district serve the needs of its under-privileged population. The program asks local businesses and corporations to assist in providing gifts for the Pre-k through 5th grade students. Principal Kathy […]

A community on the brink of divisiveness came together Thursday night to acknowledge everyone had the best interest of its unemployed in mind. During Thursday night’s City Council meeting members of the community and the governing body took time to address the elephant in the room – viable jobs for those in need. Councilman Joe […]

The Asbury Park City Council is scheduled to meet Thursday in council chambers at City Hall. A closed executive session will start at 4:30 p.m., followed by a public workshop session at 6:30 p.m. and the regular council meeting at 7 p.m. Public participation takes place at the beginning of the regular meeting. Items on […]

Ocean Township police are asking the public’s help in identifying a shoplifting suspect. The unknown accused [shown at right] was captured on video surveillance Nov. 5 shoplifting from Wegmans, Lt. Tim Torchia said. The suspect fled the area and police have been unsuccessful with their efforts in identifying him, Torchia said. Anyone able to identify the […]

A checkpoint coordinated by the Monmouth County DWI task force will be posted along Route 33 from 11 p.m. Friday night until 3 a.m. Saturday morning, according to task force coordinator Brielle Police Chief Michael W. Palmer. Motorists will be randomly pulled over from the westbound lanes into Jumping Brook Plaza parking lot. The Monmouth […]