An Asbury Park resident has been accused of fatally stabbing a Neptune man. At 3:59 a.m. Sunday Asbury Park Police received an emergency call alerting them an individual had been stabbed and was laying in the street, according to Charles Webster, public information officer for the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. Police responded and found 24-year-old […]

Authorities say a Neptune man found in the middle of an Asbury Park street has been pronounced dead. The cause of his death is still unknown. At 3:59 a.m. Asbury Park Police received an emergency call alerting them to an address on Church Street, according to Charles Webster, public information officer for the Monmouth County […]

Five new police officers will soon be hired in Asbury Park. Friday evening, Democratic Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. announced the additional officers will be added to the force as a direct result of a Community Oriented Policing Services [COPS] grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice Office, according to a press release from his website. […]

A Monmouth County Superior Court judge on Friday declined to reconsider his decision in July that ruled 252 rejected vote-by-mail ballots in the May Asbury Park city council election should not be opened. The number of ballots at issue were enough to change the election results. Daniel Harris III, [right] an unsuccessful candidate on the A-Team […]

Facing uncertainty as to the future availability of Convention Hall, The Jersey Shore Roller Girls have decided to search for an alternate venue to hold their monthly bouts. “We are sad to lose our home with Convention Hall, we have been bouting at that venue since February 2008,” Kim Hartman, media and public relations director […]

By May of next year, beaches from Asbury Park to Avon-by-the-Sea will be restored to “conditions better than prior to Sandy,” according to a press release from democratic Congressman Frank Pallone’s office. Pallone’s office announced Thursday a $18.3 million contract to replenish the beaches was awarded by congress through a federal Sandy aid package. Work will […]

When members of the Deal Lake Commission went to survey the damage Hurricane Sandy caused to the flume house that connects Deal Lake with the Atlantic Ocean, they thought they were going to have to replace the entire structure. “It was pretty bad,” said Don Brockel [shown above, in front of the flume house], chairman […]

Two Asbury Park families will soon see their energy bills greatly reduced through the donation and installation of solar energy panels on their homes. The panels come through a the work of Grid Alternatives, a nonprofit organization that brings solar power and solar job training to under-served communities,  according to Julian Foley, a communications manager for Grid […]

Wednesday’s board of education meeting was cancelled when less than half of the board members showed up at the designated start time. The meeting was schedule to start at 7 p.m. Board president Angela Ahbez-Anderson and board members Christian Hall, Felicia Simmons and Barbara Lesinki were present. Ahbez-Anderson waited until 7:15 to announce the meeting […]

The Asbury Park Housing Authority has entered into a new agreement for professional legal services. At a special meeting held Tuesday, the Board of Commissioners appointed Florio, Perrucci, Steinhardt and Fader as their new attorneys. It took the board two attempts and two closed executive sessions before a vote passed. The initial vote was 3-0 […]