Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a host of community organized holiday celebrations, most benefiting the city’s youth and those in need of a holiday joy, meal and warm clothing. There were the well-attended tree lightings at Convention Hall and then in Press Plaza, where soldiers from the National Guard’s Company B of Freehold helped […]

Rosalyn Williams attended Thursday night’s ‘Saving Our Students Symposium’ to learn what she could to help guide her child’s chosen career. “She wants to be a physical therapist,” Williams, a city resident, said of her daughter Amaris. “But she wants to go the distance. She wants to get a doctorate. “I came here tonight because […]

Asbury Park Middle School boys got a lesson on how to tie a tie from members of the Phi Upsilon Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Tuesday. The ‘Dress For Success All Boys Assembly’ was a multigenerational learning opportunity, said district spokesperson Chanta Jackson. “The program is intended to provide students with access to positive […]

Her words were clear and tempered. Bradley Elementary School student Danielle Beyer stood before a standing room only audience reciting “I’m Latino Proud.’ The reading was part of the culminating event held in the school’s auditorium to honor Hispanic Heritage Celebration. “We are trying to highlight the diversity we have in our district,” said Superintendent […]

A group of unlikely partners may have come together Tuesday afternoon to celebrate Bradley Elementary School’s new state-of-the-art soccer field but it was the students that stole the show. When asked by Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund representative Eileen Kean what they thought of their new soccer field there was a resounding show of […]

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 […]

The Asbury Park Board of Education has appointed a new superintendent of schools. In a unanimous decision, Carteret High School principal Dr. Lamont Repollet [shown at right] was selected to head up the district at a meeting held late last week. The appointment is subject to contract approval, according to state monitor Carole Morris, who […]

On Thursday, Sept. 4 at 7:50 a.m., the first official school day will begin for district students, including those who will attend the newly re-opened Barack Obama Elementary School. Late last week, teachers put the finishing touches on their classrooms and bulletin boards as elementary students will be returning to the building for the first time […]

A group of Asbury Park residents discussed the major strengths and weaknesses of the Asbury Park school system last night during a community forum intended to gauge what the community is looking for in a superintendent. Kathy Winecoff, a field service representative for the New Jersey School Boards Association, facilitated the meeting. Winecoff will also […]

A board of education meeting last night was cancelled when less than half of the board members showed up at the designated start time. The meeting was schedule to start at 7 p.m. Board president Angela Ahbez-Anderson [pictured], board vice president Geneva Smallwood and board member Qzeena Taylor were present. Ahbez-Anderson acknowledged the lack of […]