Members of the Asbury Park City Council are expected to address the issue of holiday parking rates at their next meeting on Nov. 26. Options are free parking, or free parking for three hours, in the downtown and waterfront. Reduced rates are also an option. One council member says that visitors will be given some […]

Local restaurateur Marilyn Schlossbach was one of four New Jersey women recognized Thursday for her career during the grand opening celebration of the Tommy Hilfiger store at Garden State Plaza in Paramus, according to a release from the Tommy Hilfiger Group. “The event recognized upstanding women in New Jersey from four totally different fields, and […]

Waterfront redeveloper iStar Residential has signed an agreement with K. Hovnanian Homes to build townhouses on the western edge of the Asbury Park waterfront redevelopment zone on Grand Avenue. The project will be located at the intersection of Grand and Monroe avenues, according to a news release issued by iStar this morning. K. Hovnanian Homes […]

Editor, the Asbury Park Sun, The recent attempt by State Monitor Carole Morris to reverse the decision of the school board in appointing Mr. Gregory Allen to the position of superintendent is another example of the state controlling  urban districts. Let’s put some cards on the table. Ms. Morris was interested in being the interim […]

Results from state-mandated testing for the 2012-2013 school year were presented to the Board of Education on Wednesday, and the results show children in the Asbury Park School District are performing below average across the board. William J. Shannon, director of special services for the district, presented the scores, which he says are of “concern” since […]

A grandmother, mother and son who live in Asbury Park were charged with animal cruelty after a 7-month-old pit bull was dropped off at the Shrewsbury Animal Hospital Wednesday evening with signs of burns and other injuries, according to Victor “Buddy” Amato, chief of police for the Monmouth County SPCA. A family member took the dog, called […]

Owners of Taka Restaurant on Mattison Avenue have signed a 5-year lease on the old Synaxis space on Cookman Avenue and have tentative plans to move the restaurant into the new space next year, according to Taka co-owner William Kessler. In May, when Kessler and his business partners,  Taka Hirai and David Martocci, applied to transfer the […]

The city’s auditor has been contracted to conduct an audit of the Asbury Park Enterprise Zone Development Corporation, otherwise known as the UEZ. Members of the Asbury Park City Council voted to authorize David Kaplan’s firm DAK CPA to conduct an audit of the UEZ program from June 30, 2008 up to the present. Kaplan’s […]

The district state monitor has reversed the Board of Education’s selection of Gregory Allen as the Asbury Park district superintendent of schools. State Monitor Carole Morris made her decision public at the regular Board of Education meeting held Wednesday. Allen had been tentatively appointed in a 6-3 vote at the October 16 special meeting. Reasons for […]

Come the end of November, a number of the people and locations in and around Asbury Park will be featured in the newest Local Quarterly magazine [at right]. The contemporary magazine sends reporters out to gather stories from a different American city for every issue. The Asbury Park issue will be their third. Previous cities include […]