The newly formed Asbury Park chapter of the National Action Network hosted an urban empowerment summit at Asbury Park High School Saturday with Network president Reverend Al Sharpton delivering the keynote address. The main issues the local chapter will focus on are public education, studying the fairness of the local criminal justice system, and looking […]

A pair of Asbury Park men were arraigned Monday following an indictment handed up by a Monmouth County Grand Jury charging them with the murder and robbery of an Ocean County man in July 2013, according to a news release from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. Spencer Young, 20, and Jahmir Bouie, 18, were arraigned […]

A dead body was found in Deal Lake Monday, Asbury Park police Chief Mark Kinmon has confirmed. At 2:31 p.m. police responded to a report of a dead body found in the lake by a fisherman in the area, according to Charles Webster, spokesman for the prosecutor’s office. The body was found by police, floating […]

Emergency personnel in Asbury Park will soon carry a lifesaving drug that has the power to reverse the effects of opiate overdoses. Asbury Park Police Chief Mark Kinmon just put in an order with the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office for 25 units of Narcan, he informed members of the Asbury Park City Council at a […]

A Sunday night car chase that began in Asbury Park resulted in a motor vehicle crash in Neptune in which one car overturned and three individuals were sent to the hospital. The incident started when Asbury Park police officers Michael Boone and John Sarno saw the driver of a late model Mazda commit a motor […]

The process of renting summer homes to visitors just got easier for landlords. Asbury Park City Council members passed an ordinance Wednesday that allows property owners to obtain a seasonal certificates of occupancy [COs] for their properties through the city’s code enforcement department. Council members John Loffredo, John Moor and Amy Quinn voted yes. Mayor Myra Campbell […]

City Manager John “Jack” Kelly and Asbury Park Police Chief Mark Kinmon are scheduled to meet Thursday with the owners of one of the city’s most popular restaurants to discuss several quality of life issues that crop up when the restaurant morphs into a late night dance club on the weekends. The meeting stems from […]

Waterfront redeveloper iStar Financial has reversed its decision not to appear for a second time at the city’s Technical Review Committee [TRC] to review plans for a development of townhomes in the southwest waterfront area. The proposed project — called “South Grand” — includes three row-like structures consisting of nine units each built along the […]

Public frustration with violence continues in the City of Asbury Park in the wake of the city’s first fatal shooting of the year and a large fight on the West Side that residents claim resulted in acts of police brutality, Several city residents spoke at the Wednesday Asbury Park City Council about police conduct during a […]

Instead of working with a private lender, the city has approval to use Monmouth County as a lender for the city’s tax anticipation notes, according to Richard Gartz, the city’s chief municipal finance officer. The deal through the county allows the city to save a little over half of a percent interest on each note, […]