The Asbury Park City Council Wednesday voted to submit a grant application to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to seek funds to dredge portions of Deal Lake. The Deal Lake Commissioner paid for the cost of an engineering study and supplemental materials for the city’s $6.9 million request for funds to restore the lake […]

About 15 students from Care on the Square preschool spent their Monday morning in the Board of Education office celebrating the season with school officials. The children placed ornaments they had made out of tissue paper to resemble stained glass on the office tree, listened to Superintendent Lamont Repollet read “The Polar Express” to them, received […]

First floor residents of the Munroe Towers were briefly evacuated following a fire that broke out Sunday in one of the clothing dryers in the basement laundry room. At 1:41 p.m. members of the Asbury Park Fire Department arrived at the 15-story rental complex where they found heavy smoke in the basement and parts of the […]

At their last meeting before a change of guard on Jan. 1, Asbury Park City Council members put politics aside to trade accolades and thank fellow members who won’t return to the dais in the new year. Mayor-elect John Moor, who has been a sitting councilman for the past 16 months, sincerely thanked his colleagues, […]

The incoming city council has announced it will not reappoint City Manager Jack Kelly [above] after they take office on January 1. As a result of a change of government referendum approved by voters last year, a new council was elected this past November and various key positions have to be reappointed after January 1. […]

Three individuals were arrested after a Wanamassa resident allegedly saw them testing the locks on car doors in the area and called police. On Thursday, Dec. 18 at 9:43 pm, officers from the Township of Ocean Police Department responded to the area of Wardell Place after a resident observed three subjects trying to open random […]

The teenage home of famous American author Stephen Crane was officially placed on the New Jersey State Register of Historic Places Dec. 16. The house, located at 508 Fourth Ave. in the city, is slated to be purchased by the Asbury Park Historical Society in the near future and preserved as a museum dedicated to […]

A city resident sustained a gunshot wound to the leg in the 500 block of Prospect Avenue Thursday evening, according to police. Asbury Park Police responded to the call 6:11 p.m., said Asbury Park Police Officer Mike Casey, the department’s communications officer. The man, reportedly in his 40s, was taken to Jersey Shore University Medical Center […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, Rabbi Zalman Schater-Shalomi at 85 says this: “When you’re in the December of your years and you know you are coming to the end of your tour of duty, what is the spiritual work of this time, and how do you prepare for the mystery?” He is talking about death and dying. I, at […]

Data from the Asbury Park Police Department shows gun crimes and homicides in the city have decreased. From the date new initiatives were put into action on May 15 through the period of Nov. 30, which is the last day the department has confirmed numbers available, the city has seen a decrease in homicides, total […]