Less than a week after former Democratic Gov. Jim McGreevey opted to scrap plans to open Martin’s Place – a prisoner re-entry program – next to Sacred Heart School in Jersey City, he met with community leaders and advocates in Asbury Park. Attendees at the weekend meeting in the basement of Second Baptist Church on […]

A part of Asbury Park’s musical history may live on through the memories of those who frequented the Upstage Club but by next summer the Cookman Avenue structure will become home to a retail business and four residences. The Planning Board, last week, granted site plan approval to the Ross brothers, real estate investors and […]

Be it a tie-dye shirt or socks, ecofriendly soaps or cologne, all the items at Tuesday’s Kids in Biz Expo are handcrafted by Asbury Park High School students enrolled in The Spot. The Spot is a youth service program funded by the NJ Dept. of Children and Families in collaboration with Visiting Nurse Association Health […]

The Asbury Park High School football team took to weeding Thursday morning at Interfaith Neighbors’ Kula Urban Farm and around the Springwood Avenue Center that houses Kula Café and the Senior Center. The community service endeavor was a collaboration between Interfaith Neighbors and the school district’s College and Career Readiness program, with guidance from the […]

In the early morning Thursday social media buzzed with outrage over the vandalism of a public art installation along Asbury Park’s boardwalk. The pop art mural [shown above] was splattered sometime during the overnight with hues of green paint and tagged with white spray painted letters. But shortly thereafter someone left an anonymous, three-page, handwritten […]

A 20-year-old man turned a gun on himself after shooting a 30-year-old male victim Thursday afternoon at a residence near Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, according to a Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office news release. Both men, residents of Asbury Park, remain in critical condition at an area hospital, Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office spokesman Charles Webster […]

Two police officers were admitted to Monmouth Medical Center for smoke inhalation and 15 firefighters were treated for heat exhaustion after responding to Tuesday’s fire at Twinbrook Village Apartment Complex on Apollo Street, Ocean Township Police Detective Lieutenant Kevin L. Faller said. Officer Ryan Vaccaro and Detective Jeffrey Malone responded near 1:15 p.m. to the […]

A steady stream of Gov. Chris Christie supporters made their way through Asbury Park’s historic Convention Hall  into the Paramount Theater Tuesday night. Having paid anywhere from $250 to $5,400 to attend the 2016 presidential candidate’s kick off fundraiser, they gave resounding applause for the second term New Jersey governor. For most of the evening […]

The Asbury Park Police Department charged arrested and charged a Neptune man Friday night with the stabbing of a 25-year-old city man, Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced Monday. Anthony J. Butts, 21, is charged with first-degree attempted murder, third-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and fourth-degree unlawful possession of a […]

This weekend’s Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office gun buyback program yielded 428 weapons that resulted in over $30,000 pay out, Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced Monday afternoon. The program, held in Asbury Park and Keansburg, was a success, he said. “There was an overwhelming response to the gun buyback program this year,” Gramiccioni […]