The Sixth Annual Visionary Tattoo Arts Festival kicks-off 2 p.m. Friday at Convention Hall, located along the Asbury Park boardwalk at 1300 Ocean Avenue. The weekend festival features over 150 tattoo artists from around the world, organizers said. Tattoo contests run daily throughout the three-day festival with a culmination of Best of Show on Sunday. […]

Kula Café has lined up a few day of events geared toward the city’s youth. On Saturday, the monthly K.Y.D.S. Open Mic night will kick off at 5:45 p.m. at the 1201 Springwood Ave café. The “One Mic One Soul” event is presented by Konscious Youth Development and Service. All city youth and young adults […]

Democratic Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. announced Wednesday Asbury Park is among four communities who received U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development grants for community and economic development. The grants total $5.7 million and include funding through HUD’s Community Development Block Grant [CDBG]. “This federal investment in our congressional district will spur economic growth and […]

The Asbury Park City Council is scheduled to meet Wednesday in council chambers at City Hall. A closed executive session will start at 4:30 p.m., followed by a public workshop session at 6:30 p.m. and the regular council meeting at 7 p.m. Public participation takes place at the beginning of the regular meeting. Items on […]

The Summerfield Avenue railroad crossing will close permanently to pedestrian and vehicular traffic Tuesday, Mayor John Moor announced at Monday night’s City Council workshop meeting. The crossing was schedule for closure later this year but a split in the rail’s mainline prompted the immediate closure, Moor said. “We got the news today from the DOT […]

The Asbury Park Police Department is investigating two stabbing cases that occurred over the weekend, Acting Chief Anthony Salerno said. The first case was reported near 12:30 a.m. Sunday when police Sgt. Kamil Warraich was flagged down by a passerby. The person said someone was bleeding within the 1100 block of Ocean Avenue along the […]

The 10th Annual Family Day is scheduled for noon to 5 p.m. Saturday along Asbury Park’s Eighth Avenue beach. Behind the scenes of a day that features free surf lessons, food, music, and games, is a dream realized. “Over the past 10 years it has become an example of a community coming together,” said Councilman […]

Two additional appointments to the Asbury Park Library Board of Trustees has propelled its president Don Stine to offer his letter of resignation, effective Aug. 1. The appointments were made without ‘due process’ or the consultation of the sitting board, Stine maintains in a written letter to the public published Thursday in local newspapers. Stine […]

A city resident was captured and arrested in relation to an attack of a 34-year-old female Wednesday afternoon. At close to 1:25 p.m. Asbury Park Police responded to a call at the Asbury Gardens on Atlantic Avenue. Police determined that city resident Willie Johnson Jr, 44, and a 34-year-old female resident were involved in an […]

An Asbury Park daycare and pre-school owner pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges related to fraudulent contracts, Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni said in news release. Sylvia B. Brodrick, 59, of Shadow Lawn Drive in Ocean Township’s Oakhurst section, pleaded guilty to two counts of a second degree charge that she made false material representations in […]