Editor, the Asbury Park Sun, To me, the local Asbury Park election on November 4, 2014 is more immediately important than a national election. My and your vote will determine how issues that affect us every day will be dealt with. EDUCATION – I want our schools to be places where our youngsters learn there […]

[Editor’s note: In an effort to provide Sun readers and Asbury Park candidates who seek to be elected as the city’s first directly-elected mayor with the most fair and accurate election coverage, the Sun sat down with each of the four mayoral candidates and asked them the same ten questions. No candidates were provided advanced […]

Councilman John Moor, who is running for mayor in the November election, has a pending legal claim against the city. “I filed a worker’s comp case in 2009 saying I was injured at work and I’m waiting for it to [be litigated],” Moor said. Moor [shown at right] was an employee of the city’s public […]

Kula Café has received one of the 2014 Excellence in Housing and Economic Development awards from the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency, according to a release from café owners. The café, a community restaurant and job training program  in Asbury Park, was one of two winners in the category of Leading Public-Private Economic […]

An Asbury Park police Lieutenant was hospitalized Thursday night after he was struck in the face by a teenager on Washington Avenue. At approximately 10 p.m. Lt.David DeSane was in full uniform and walking to meet other officers he was training on the in the south west quadrant of the city when he noticed two […]

The Asbury Park chapter of the National Action Network is sponsoring a Unity Rally on Main Street and a United Gospel Festival at the Paramount Theatre Saturday, Oct. 11, with Rev. Al Sharpton as the gospel show’s keynote speaker. The Unity Rally starts at 1 p.m. in Bradley Park, located on the block west of […]

The city has collected an additional $737,000 in beach and parking revenue so far this year, in comparison to last year’s totals, according to city records. Beach revenue totals are up $183,348, from $1,110,165 last year to $1,293,523 this year, city records show. The roughly sixteen percent increase does not include surplus from prior years […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, October 14 is the last day to register to vote. Your mail application must be postmarked by that day. Voter registration forms are available at City Hall, One Municipal Plaza. You can also enter your information electronically, print and mail an application at this link.  You should be concerned about the future […]

Asbury Park Boys & Girls Club kids walked through a new set of doors into a fully renovated club space for the first time today. Through a partnership with Lowe’s home improvement store’s Local Heroes program, improvements to the first floor of the building were completed Sunday, according to Douglas Eagles, the club’s executive director. “It’s […]

UPDATE: The start of the NJ Zombie Walk has been changed to 5 p.m., due to rain Saturday morning. This article has been updated to reflect the new start time. The 2014 New Jersey Zombie is scheduled to take place in Asbury Park Saturday at 5 p.m. and thousands of zombies are expected to crawl […]