At Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Middle School in Asbury Park, where district officials have made strides to ‘Build a Brighter Future’ for its students, Gov Phil Murphy Friday signed an executive order that aims to stay gun violence across the state. “It is appropriate, this week of all weeks, to be in a school named […]

From readings with Secretary of State Tahesha Way and a Black History Celebration that honored female political leaders of color to a conversation about gun violence with Congressman Frank Pallone Jr, the students in the Asbury Park High School have landed on a landscape that not only takes them across the state but throughout parts […]

The Asbury Park Board of Education has named its second in command – Sancha Gray – as Acting Superintendent effective upon the formal resignation of Dr. Lamont Repollet; tapped by Gov. Phil Murphy to become the State’s next Commissioner of Education. “Dr Repollet made a solid foundation, for which this district is experiencing growth in […]

A group of Asbury Park High School students were honored Wednesday night by the City Council through the ceremonious adoption of a Human Trafficking Resolution they crafted. The 90 students were all a part of the district’s Dream Academy homestead social studies class or the general education world history class, all administered by Janice Kroposky […]

The Asbury Park School District Schools will be closed Thursday, Superintendent Lamont Repollet said. “We were trying to see if the forecast would change,” Repollet said. “But all indications show this may prove to be a blizzard. Local and national meteorologists Wednesday forecasted anywhere from a 4 to 6 inch storm to 12 to 20 […]

Close to a hundred fathers; many of whom took off from work from 8 to 10 a.m. Tuesday morning, attended Thurgood Marshall Elementary’s inaugural Bring Your Dad To School Day. Among them was Major Mason who said he would be going in late to his job at the Morganville School District. “This was empowering,” Mason […]

Asbury Park native Steve Ramseur, who grew up in the Stephen Manner affordable housing complex, was promoted to the rank of sergeant Wednesday afternoon. The father of three, who has two grandchildren, said he chose to become a police officer because “growing up in the city, I knew it was a good career. I just […]

The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword, Asbury Park School District documentary took top honors during this weekend’s 15th Annual Pocono Film Festival, held Saturday at the Poconos Mount Airy Casino and Resort in Mount Pocono, Pa. Founded by Bridget O. Davis, a registered ER nurse, author and founder of the Brown Girl Book Club, […]

Having to recall verse and the nervousness of recording in front of an audience proved the most challenging for 11-year-olds Kiara Johnson, Nakylah Muhammad and Jaylah Gomez [shown in feature photo], who are among the stars of The Pen is Mightier than the Sword, a documentary being screened Saturday at the 15th Annual Pocono Mountains […]

A sneak peek screening of The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword, the Asbury Park School District’s very own hip hop documentary, will be held tonight at The ShowRoom Cinema, located at 707 Cookman Avenue. The Red Carpet show comes days before the film’s screening at the 15th Annual Pocono Mountains Film Festival on Oct. […]