With the city’s ban on office space on the ground floor of Cookman Avenue, a local advertising agency was told on Friday to remove their signage and vacate the premises at 716 Cookman Avenue. Marshall, Jackson & Partners advertising agency had shared the space with Image Tech Photo Studio and Kiss My Art, an art […]

From June 5 to 10 the Asbury Park Police Department made the following arrests: JUNE 5 • A 20-year-old male from Asbury Park was arrested and charged with obstruction of justice. • A 19-year-old male from Neptune was arrested and charged with possession of controlled dangerous substances [CDS] at the intersection of Heck Street and […]

A candidate on the losing A-Team slate has filed a lawsuit challenging the results of the Asbury Park City Council election on May 14. The petition, filed Tuesday by Daniel Harris III, contests the voiding of 332 vote by mail [VBM] ballots and the failure to count 32 provisional ballots by the Monmouth County Board […]

The new incoming council majority will replace City Manager Terence Reidy, both Reidy and one of the new council members have confirmed. Newcomers John Moor, Amy Quinn and Myra Campbell, who ran on the One Asbury ticket, will assume the council majority after their scheduled swearing in on July 1. Incumbents John Loffredo and Susan […]

The Asbury Park Sun has a new editor to oversee its mission to provide accurate, objective and fair reporting to its readers. New editor Jill Bartlett [above] is an Asbury Park resident and a graduate of Rutgers University, where she won numerous academic prizes and scholarships. Her breaking news experience comes through her work as […]

Shore-area Congressman Frank Pallone will formally announce his candidacy for the U.S. Senate today at a press conference in Trenton. Pallone, 61, told the Associated Press that he’s in the race to fill the term of the late Senator Frank Lautenberg. A special election will be held on Oct. 16 to fill the seat. Pallone […]

Asbury Park Democratic Chairman Guiseppe “Joe” Grillo [above] is one of three plaintiffs in a lawsuit to stop the special election in October to fill the state’s vacant U.S. Senate seat. Republican Governor Chris Christie set the date for the election on Oct. 16. The winner will fill the seat left vacant by the death […]

Fourth of July fireworks will be held in Asbury Park this year, according to the city’s director of commerce and economic development. “We do have enough money to do the fireworks,” said Tom Gilmour. “We are negotiating with a [fireworks] vendor right now, but I’ve been assured that it’s going to happen.” There is also […]

The Jersey Shore Jazz and Blues summer series of music festivals kicks off Saturday at its first event in Bradley Park across from Convention Hall. The series takes place over the course of the next three Saturdays, beginning in Asbury Park and then travelling to Point Pleasant on July 20 and Long Branch on Aug. […]

A group of Asbury Park residents discussed the major strengths and weaknesses of the Asbury Park school system last night during a community forum intended to gauge what the community is looking for in a superintendent. Kathy Winecoff, a field service representative for the New Jersey School Boards Association, facilitated the meeting. Winecoff will also […]