Atlantic City has officially acquired the Garden State Film Festival [GSFF] for at least the next three years. The city’s Casino Reinvestment Development Authority [CDRA] voted Tuesday at their monthly meeting to provide financial assistance in the amount of $300,000 to the film festival over the next three years, according to Diane Raver, the festival’s […]

Area bluesman Ken “Stringbean” Sorensen [above] has been made almost whole after his van was stolen last month in Asbury Park, loaded with his vintage instruments and equipment. The instruments were recovered — and now, so has his van. All that remains missing is a PA system, Sorensen said. News of the theft went viral, […]

Asbury Park youth who will begin fifth grade this year are invited to attend a free, week long summer music camp. The Jazz Arts Project, a nonprofit organization, will run their 2013 Asbury Park Summer Music Camp for beginning instrumental music students at the Boys and Girls Club of Monmouth County starting Aug. 26. Initiated […]

A major decision that may determine the Garden State Film Festival’s [GSFF] relocation to Atlantic City is scheduled to take place today. Atlantic City’s Casino Reinvestment Development Authority [CDRA] will vote today after 2 p.m. as to whether they will provide financial assistance to the film festival, according to Diane Raver, the festival’s executive director. […]

A sixteen year old Asbury Park resident has been arrested and charged with robbery in Allenhurst. Ocean Township Police received a call Monday shortly before 6 p.m. from a West Allenhurst resident who reported they heard glass shatter nearby, according to a news release from the Township of Ocean Police Department. When police arrived on […]

Faced with an overflow crowd of over 150 people, and a defect in the publishing of a legal notice, the Loch Arbour Board of Commissioners Monday night postponed a public hearing on an ordinance authorizing the village to purchase 4.8 acres of beachfront. The commissioner’s meeting room has a capacity of only 40 people. The […]

The Asbury Park school district has entered into a new agreement for professional legal services. The Board of Education at their June 12 meeting appointed Cooper Levenson April Niedelman & Wagenheim, P.A. as their new attorneys. The vote was four in favor with four abstentions. Board members Christian Hall, Nicole Harris, Joseph Raines, Jr., and […]

Local politicians and restaurateur Marilyn Schlossbach gathered on the Asbury Park boardwalk Saturday to raise awareness about the impacts of extreme weather events on the area and to support President Barack Obama’s new climate change initiative. The press conference was an organized stop on the “I Will Act On Climate” bus tour. The bus, supported […]

Two weeks after a falling slab of concrete shut the outdoor promenades at Convention Hall, the Beach Bar in the south promenade reopened on Saturday. The north and east side promenades remain closed. The twelve foot by six foot slab fell on the north side, missing a baby shower that was scheduled less than an […]

The death of a 20 year old Asbury Park man shot and killed in the city on Friday night has been declared a homicide, according to Assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor Marc LeMieux. The county medical examiner completed the autopsy today of victim Tyrell Howard to determine the manner of death, said LeMieux, who declined to […]