Come January, the Asbury Park City Council will double their amount of monthly public meetings. Instead of holding back-to-back workshop and regular session meetings on the first and third Wednesdays of each month, workshop meetings will be held on the second and fourth Mondays and regular sessions on the second and fourth Wednesdays, according to […]

The Asbury Park City Council is scheduled to meet Wednesday in council chambers at City Hall. A closed executive session will start at 5 p.m., followed by a workshop session at 6 p.m. and a regular council meeting at 7 p.m. Public participation takes place at the beginning of the regular meeting. Items on the […]

The provisional ballots cast in the Asbury Park municipal and board of education elections have been counted. Provisional ballots are cast when it’s unclear if a voter is qualified to vote. On election day, 161 voters in Asbury Park cast a provisional ballot. About half of the ballots —72 — were counted, according to data from […]

Candidates running on the Asbury Together ticket have filed their second round of campaign finance reports with the state Election Law Enforcement Commission [ELEC]. For campaigns raising more than $12,300, all contributions of $300 or more must be reported to ELEC. Those campaigns must also provide details on their expenditures, the total amount of money raised […]

Members of the Asbury Together campaign have filed over 300 challenges to vote-by-mail [VBM] ballot applications with the Monmouth County Clerk of Elections that call into question whether members of the opposing A-Team ticket and the ticket’s campaign volunteers properly handled messenger ballot applications, according to an Asbury Together campaign release issued Thursday. Hundreds of […]

Editor, the Asbury Park Sun, John Moor and Amy Quinn have accomplished a lot with only two of five votes in 15 months. Their formula is simple: listen to the public, research the issue, apply common sense, take action. If more of government worked that way, government might have a better reputation. Convention Hall is […]

[Editor’s note: In an effort to provide Sun readers and Asbury Park candidates who seek to be elected as the city’s first directly-elected mayor with the most fair and accurate election coverage, the Sun sat down with each of the four mayoral candidates and asked them the same ten questions. No candidates were provided advanced […]

[Editor’s note: In an effort to provide Sun readers and Asbury Park candidates who seek to be elected as the city’s first directly-elected mayor with the most fair and accurate election coverage, the Sun sat down with each of the four mayoral candidates and asked them the same ten questions. No candidates were provided advanced […]

The Asbury Park City Council is scheduled to meet Wednesday in council chambers at City Hall. A closed executive session will start at 5 p.m., followed by a workshop session at 6 p.m. and a regular council meeting at 7 p.m. Public participation takes place at the beginning of the regular meeting. Items on the […]