Watermark owners have raised $20,000 to support the Lakehouse Music Academy’s effort to bring a full music curriculum to Hope Academy Charter School. The money will be donated to the “Play it Forward” foundation, a philanthropic program launched last year by Lakehouse Music Academy administered by the Asbury Park Musical Heritage Foundation. Funds were raised […]

The Asbury Park Historical Society will hold its eighth annual “Art on the Boardwalk” show this Sunday, Aug. 17, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the Asbury Park boardwalk between Sunset & Fifth avenues, just south of Convention Hall. Work from over a dozen sculptors, painters and photographers will be on display, according to a […]

An effort to amend the waterfront redevelopment agreement to allow smaller developers to move forward has been met with opposition from master waterfront redeveloper iStar Financial. The City Council directed City Manager John “Jack” Kelly Wednesday to write a letter to request iStar agree to amend the waterfront redevelopment agreement to allow developers to move […]

Members of the Asbury Park City Council are all in agreement that none of the city’s railway intersections between Memorial Drive and Main Street should be shut off to traffic. In a discussion held during the Aug. 6 city council meeting, all five council members agreed to send correspondence to the state department of transportation […]

National Basketball Association [NBA] free agent J.R. Inman is set to conduct a youth basketball clinic at the Asbury Park unit of the Boys & Clubs of Monmouth County on Friday, Aug. 15 from noon to 3 p.m., according to recent news release. Inman is a former Rutgers forward who is now a free agent […]

The New Jersey Tree Foundation, in partnership with American Forests and the City of Asbury Park, is getting ready to plant another round of shade trees in the city this fall, according to a news release from the foundation. Anyone who would like a 12-14 foot tree planted in the space between the curb and […]

The Asbury Park City Council voted Wednesday to grant conceptual approval on a re-adaptive use project to turn the Salvation Army building, located at 200 Fifth Avenue, into a boutique hotel. Master waterfront redeveloper iStar Financial brought in Manhattan-based architectural firm Stonehill & Taylor  to transform the long-vacant building into an 110-room hotel with a […]

The Asbury Park City Council is scheduled to meet Wednesday in council chambers at City Hall. A closed executive session will start at 5 p.m., followed by a workshop session at 6 p.m. and a regular council meeting at 7 p.m. Public participation takes place at the beginning of the regular meeting. Items on the […]

An exterior wall that runs along the Ocean Avenue side of Asbury Park’s famed concert venue The Stone Pony has a new look. An 8-foot chain link fence has been replaced by an 11-foot masonry wall on the eastern perimeter. The white wall, which extends slightly down the southern side along the perimeter of the […]

An open house will be held at the historic Stephen Crane House in Asbury Park on Sunday, August 10, in an effort to raise public awareness and increase donations for a major fundraising campaign to purchase and restore the location, according to a news release from the Asbury Park Historical Society. The house, located at 508 […]