Heavy Tuesday night rains, an astronomical high tide, and an on-shore wind and tidal flow caused all three of Asbury Park’s coastal lakes to rise considerably and by Wednesday morning Wesley Lake reached across to flood cars and businesses along Lake Avenue. The storm brought between four- to six-inches of rainfall to the area within […]

Watermark owners have raised $20,000 to support the Lakehouse Music Academy’s effort to bring a full music curriculum to Hope Academy Charter School. The money will be donated to the “Play it Forward” foundation, a philanthropic program launched last year by Lakehouse Music Academy administered by the Asbury Park Musical Heritage Foundation. Funds were raised […]

The Asbury Park Historical Society will hold its eighth annual “Art on the Boardwalk” show this Sunday, Aug. 17, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the Asbury Park boardwalk between Sunset & Fifth avenues, just south of Convention Hall. Work from over a dozen sculptors, painters and photographers will be on display, according to a […]

A 17-year-old city resident has been accused of robbing two other juveniles while they were leaving a festival in Ocean Township Wednesday. On August 7., two juveniles reported they had been robbed of their cash at gunpoint the night before while leaving Joe Palaia Park near Deal Test Site and Whalepond Road, according to a release […]

Asbury Lanes is not the only bowling alley which has caught the eye of waterfront redeveloper IStar Financial. The corporation is acquiring 58 bowling centers around the country from sports equipment manufacturer Brunswick Corporation, according to an Aug. 1 report in the Commercial Observer website. IStar did not return a call from the Commercial Observer seeking […]

Asbury Park police are investigating an early Monday morning incident of shots fired by a man who was reportedly riding a bicycle at the time. Police responded to the call in the 700 block of Sewall Avenue shortly after midnight Monday, according to Deputy Chief Anthony Salerno. A 25-year-old city man was sitting on his […]

An effort to amend the waterfront redevelopment agreement to allow smaller developers to move forward has been met with opposition from master waterfront redeveloper iStar Financial. The City Council directed City Manager John “Jack” Kelly Wednesday to write a letter to request iStar agree to amend the waterfront redevelopment agreement to allow developers to move […]

Members of the Asbury Park City Council are all in agreement that none of the city’s railway intersections between Memorial Drive and Main Street should be shut off to traffic. In a discussion held during the Aug. 6 city council meeting, all five council members agreed to send correspondence to the state department of transportation […]

National Basketball Association [NBA] free agent J.R. Inman is set to conduct a youth basketball clinic at the Asbury Park unit of the Boys & Clubs of Monmouth County on Friday, Aug. 15 from noon to 3 p.m., according to recent news release. Inman is a former Rutgers forward who is now a free agent […]

An early morning automobile accident on Memorial Drive took the life of a 23 year old city man, while the four passengers in the vehicles escaped unharmed. At 12:53 a.m., Jeffrey Voltaire was driving a 2003 Jeep Cherokee south on Memorial Drive when he lost control of the vehicle and if flipped over at the […]