A Highland Park man was arrested on multiple drug possession charges following a motor vehicle stop, Ocean Township Police Department announced in a written statement. Minervo Taveras, 29, was charged with possession of the psychoactive drug Gamma Hydroxybutyrate [GHB], Methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia, officials said. He was arrested for an outstanding New Brunswick warrant. The […]

Female lifeguards from across Monmouth County came together Thursday in Asbury Park to compete in a set races aimed at testing skill, strength and endurance. The Fifth Annual Monmouth County All Women’s Lifeguard Tournament, held along the Third Avenue beach, was created by the Monmouth County USLA Chief’s Association to showcase female lifeguards, Asbury Park […]

Fitness in the Park will launch 11 am to 1 pm Saturday in Sunset Park, located on Main Street between Fifth and Sunset avenues, city officials have announced. The Mayor’s Wellness Committee event is cosponsored by the Sunset Lake Park Conservancy, with funding provided by the NJ Prevention Network. Aimed at offering fun and fitness […]

No stranger to organizing community events, Asbury Park and its creatives will host a number of local festivals, celebrations, conferences and conventions in the upcoming months; and even year. Below is a list of some of the more popular returning local gatherings, as well as a few inaugural announcements.   The Universal African Festival returns 10 […]

Get those beach chairs, blankets and snacks ready. The Asbury Park Film Initiative [APFI] and Shore Flicks have announced the summer free Movies on the Beach lineup. This mark’s the ninth year of films screenings on the Second Avenue beach in front of Langosta Lounge. The Film Initiative is a nonprofit founded in 2008 by […]

It is only week two of the Conserve Wildlife Foundation Summer Learning Experience program, a part of the Asbury Park School District Summer Camp offerings, and third-grade students have had the opportunity to not only see an osprey up close and personal but to visit a local nest and learn to simulate building the predatory […]

A Memorial Service for James Famularo will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Asbury Lanes, located at 209 Fourth Avenue. Famularo, a city native with an over 20 year history of service to the community – particularly its youth, died in a blaze that ravished his Park Avenue home of […]

There was little fanfare Monday morning as the newest member of the Asbury Park Police Department was sworn into duty, but it was a lifelong dream realized but city natives and longtime municipal employees Cassandra Dickerson and Leesha Floyd attended the swearing in ceremony as a show of support. From the age of 5 or […]

It was an afternoon that brought State and Local officials together to walk the runway in support of Asbury Park’s recreation programs. Donning their best summer apparel, everyone from Sen Vin Gopal, Assembly Member Joann Downey and Eric Houghtaling to Councilwoman Yvonne Clayton and Sgt. Eugene Dello, took their turn glamming it up for an […]

A Monmouth County grand jury has returned a six-count indictment charging a Neptune Township man and his juvenile co-defendant in the February shooting death of a 10-year-old Asbury Park boy, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni has announced. Karon Council, 18, and co-defendant Jah-Del K. Birch, 17, both of Neptune Township, are charged with killing […]