Below is the Allenhurst police blotter from September 5 through 22. The information is edited to meet Associated Press Stylebook standards but is published otherwise unedited from the Allenhurst Police Department: SEPT 5 • After stopping a 51-year-old Asbury Park man for a motor vehicle violation, he was arrested when he was found to be […]

Sharp eyes and quick actions by Asbury Park Police officers are believed to have made the difference between life and death for a man who tried to commit suicide Friday. While on patrol in the 700 block of Second Avenue, Class II Special officers Clint Davis and Ryan Leahy spotted a Chevy Blazer backed into […]

[UPDATE: The time and location of the TRC meeting has been changed. It will take place at 5 p.m. in the second floor conference room of the municipal complex, located across from the city manager’s office at One Municipal Plaza.] The Asbury Park Technical Review Committee [TRC] is scheduled to meet Thursday in council chambers at […]

A Long Branch resident who nearly hit a police car while driving near the Asbury Park traffic circle was charged with weapons possession after police say they found a machete in his car. Vincent K. Johnston-Haughton, 21, was found with a “machete type knife” next to the center console of the car he was driving after he failed […]

Editor, the Asbury Park Sun, As the summer comes to a close and fall creeps up on us I look at Asbury Park and wonder, what does the future holds for us? It was another successful summer for the beachfront and major development is finally coming to to the West Side. The two projects on […]

Downtown Asbury Park’s newest bar and restaurant, Prohibition, is open for business. The restaurant is a modern take on the prohibition-era speakeasy. It offers prohibition-era cocktails and an American food menu in an elegant but casual atmosphere, according to co-owner Frank Gullace. “We want to make it as nice as possible, but for people to […]

An Asbury Park-based blog that features street portraits of people within city limits and couples them with short snippets of conversations had its first anniversary about a week ago. The blog, Humans of Asbury Park, was created by 28-year-old Kamelia Ani [shown above]. Ani took her inspiration from the popular Humans of New York site and, […]

An outflow pipe that allows water to exchange between Wesley Lake and the ocean is clogged with sand, and a pond weed is further trapping debris and garbage in the coastal lake. City public works employees identified the problem with the pipe Wednesday, according to City Engineer Joe Cunha, who heads up the department. Workers […]

Visitors to Convention Hall, the city’s most widely recognized waterfront landmark, can expect a good scare on select evenings throughout the month of October as they weave their way through a haunted maze on the hall’s main floor. “Haunted Hall” promises small, dark alleys that lead to a series of ten “scare rooms.” Each room […]

The Asbury Park Fire Department is set to receive a $24,700 grant through the Assistance to Firefighters Grant [AFG] program, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr., announced Wednesday. The AFG program is part of a coordinated, ongoing effort by the Federal Emergency Management Agency [FEMA] and the Department of Homeland Security in cooperation with the U.S. Fire Administration […]