Asbury Park voters chose to split the ticket of two competing teams seeking to fill the three open Board of Education seats in Tuesday’s election, according to unofficial results posted on the website of the Monmouth County Clerk. Top vote getters were Angela Abez-Anderson, Kenneth Saunders, Jr. and  Barbara Lesinksi. The unofficial results include mail-in […]

About 15 students from Care on the Square preschool spent their Monday morning in the Board of Education office celebrating the season with school officials. The children placed ornaments they had made out of tissue paper to resemble stained glass on the office tree, listened to Superintendent Lamont Repollet read “The Polar Express” to them, received […]

The Asbury Park Board School District has a new chief schools administrator. Carteret High School Principal Dr. Lamont Repollet [above, at center] was issued a five-year contract effective September 29, 2014 at $157,500 per year for the balance of the current school year and for a further term of four years. His salary for the […]

As of noon Monday, six candidates have filed to run for three full-term seats on the Asbury Park Board of Education. The election will be held Nov. 4. The candidates are incumbent Angela Ahbez Anderson of 405 First Ave., Arva M. Council of 1303 Summerfield Ave., Carol B. Jones of 1507 Bond St., incumbent Felicia Simmons of 1410 Summerfield […]

The Asbury Park Board of Education voted to appoint Gregory Allen to the top position in the district, this time in an interim role. Board member Christian Hall made a motion to appoint Allen as the district’s interim superintendent, board member Felicia Simmons seconded the motion. The vote passed 5-2. Board President Geneva Smallwood, Vice-President […]

Due to high elementary school enrollment in the district, the Barack H. Obama School may be put back into operation as an elementary school come September. The Asbury Park Board of Education voted 9-0 Tuesday night to have school administrators develop a reorganization plan and provide a cost analysis of what it would take to […]

Members of the Asbury Park Board of Education are at odds on whether to hire a new auditor, architect and insurance broker. At a meeting held Tuesday, the board voted 5-3 on a motion to seek bids for all three positions. Board President Geneva Smallwood and board members Nicolle D. Harris, Christian Hall, Felicia Simmons […]

The city’s Cable Television Advisory Committee [APTV] has started negotiations with school district officials to begin taping Asbury Park Board of Education meetings. “We’re in talks with the board of education, for the board to start having representation on APTV,” said APTC board chair John Kaplow [pictured above in the APTV studio in City Hall]. […]

The “Meet the Candidates” series continues to spotlight individual residents who seek a seat on the Asbury Park Board of Education. There are three three-year terms and two one-year terms up for contest on the Nov. 5 ballot, making a majority of the seats on the nine member board available. A total of nine candidates are […]

The “Meet the Candidates” series continues to spotlight individual residents who seek a seat on the Asbury Park Board of Education. There are three three-year terms and two one-year terms up for contest on the Nov. 5 ballot, making a majority of the seats on the nine member board available. A total of nine candidates are […]