Asbury Park’s city council is scheduled to meet in council chambers tonight, with a closed executive session starting at 5 p.m.; a workshop session at 6 p.m.; and a regular meeting at 7 p.m. The workshop and executive agendas were not available online at the time of this posting. Items on the regular meeting agenda […]

More than 1,500 guns were collected at gun buybacks in Asbury Park and Keansburg churches last weekend, Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa [pictured above at podium] has announced. The firearms collected from Asbury Park comprise almost half of the 1,581 brought in through the buybacks, Police Chief Mark Kinmon said today. “This buyback was another […]

An Ocean Grove woman was arrested on March 10 after she allegedly stabbed an acquaintance with a steak knife due to an argument over food at 2 a.m., Asbury Park Police Chief Mark Kinmon said. Lorraine Swan, 49, was at her boyfriend’s house with him and his cousin when a fight broke out, Kinmon said. […]

The planning board was scheduled to hear an application for a large-scale expansion of Johnny Mac’s at its meeting last night and later vote on the matter, but it was tabled because officials said plans came in late to City Hall. John McGillion, the Main Street tavern’s owner, said he was unaware of a deadline […]

From March 5 to 12, the Asbury Park Police Department made the following arrests: MARCH 5 • A 53-year-old male from Brooklyn, NY, was arrested and charged with robbery and unlawful possession of a firearm. MARCH 6 • A 44-year-old male from Neptune was arrested and charged with possession of CDS, manufacturing CDS, CDS distribution […]

Twenty-three people have filed for candidacy in the upcoming Asbury Park council election, scheduled for May 14. Each candidate was required to collect the signatures of 85 registered Asbury Park voters and submit them to City Hall by 5 p.m. today. Each of the candidates had collected more than 100 signatures, city clerk Steve Kay […]

The Charter Study Commission has created a website to keep residents abreast of developments in their process of studying the city’s form of government. The commission meets each Monday at City Hall, the West Side Community Center or the Springwood Center, depending on the week. The five-member body is tasked with scrutinizing the city’s form […]

City council candidate Myra Campbell has charged that some of her opponents on the A-Team ticket violated laws when campaigning on school grounds  — but it appears the state statute prohibiting such activity only applies to those who are running for the school board. Campbell, who is running as part of the One Asbury ticket, made […]

The incumbent-led Forward Asbury Park ticket has found a replacement for Joe Grillo, who announced Sunday morning that he was pulling out of the race because of family and job commitments. Will Potter, 46, will seek a place on the ballot with the ticket, which includes incumbents John Loffredo, Susan Henderson and Kevin Sanders. Also […]

Citing demands of family and job, a member of the incumbent-led Forward Asbury ticket has dropped out of the race for city council. “The needs of my job and my needs for my family and my responsibilities as chair of the Asbury Park Democratic Organization made by candidacy untenable,” said Joe Grillo [above]. “Every bone […]