Students at Sisters Academy of New Jersey are prepared to save lives after completing a training session from the very individuals who respond after disaster strikes — the American Red Cross. Each of the school’s 60 students successfully completed a Red Cross babysitting, pediatric first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation [CPR] training program Friday. The six-and-a-half hour […]

If you have an opionion you’d like to voice about the status of parking in the City by the Sea, the Asbury Park Parking Advisory Committee would like to hear it. On Tuesday, Dec. 2, at 7 p.m. the advisory committee will host an open public session in City Council Chambers where they will gather […]

Holiday festivities on the Asbury Park boardwalk kick off on Saturday, Nov. 29 with a performance of the Nutcracker, the annual tree lighting ceremony and the Ugly Holiday Sweater Party. Shops in the Grand Arcade will open at noon on both Black Friday, Nov. 28, and Small Business Saturday, Nov. 29 and boardwalk representatives are […]

An Asbury Park resident was stabbed on Thursday night at 6 p.m. in the 700 block of Main Street by a man he told police robbed him the night before outside of his home on Sewall Avenue. The victim, a 45-year-old male who did not call police after he was robbed of his wallet around […]

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 […]

An amendment to one of the city’s redevelopment plans that would allow a microbrewery to set up shop on Main Street got the Asbury Park City Council’s initial stamp of approval. The business, Dark City Brewing Co., has a lease signed on a roughly 3,000 square-foot space at the corner of Main Street and Second […]

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 […]

Two legislators from Monmouth and Hudson Counties have joined together to introduce legislation to curb the use of so-called “messenger ballots”. Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon [R-Monmouth] and Assemblyman Carmelo Garcia [D-Hudson] cited the wide-scale use of the ballots in Asbury Park, Atlantic City, Paterson and Hoboken as the impetus for the introduction of the measure, according to a […]

From Nov. 8 through the 18, the Asbury Park Police Department made the following arrests: NOV 8 • A 22-year-old female from Brick Township was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct in the 900 block of Kingsley Avenue. • A 28-year-old female from Asbury Park was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest at the […]

The 4,000 square foot space that once housed Ivan & Andy’s Prime steakhouse is in the midst of a transformation. New owners, brothers Bob Fahey, 38, and Chris Fahey, 40, will open the doors on their newest venture, Cross & Orange, hopefully by mid December — but they aren’t rushing it, said Bob Fahey. “We want […]