City Manager John “Jack” Kelly has a plan to create a new title that would allow him to appoint a long-time Asbury Park employee to a quasi-assistant city manager’s position. Anthony Nuccio, the city’s director of community relations and social services, may be named the city’s “deputy municipal manager.” The title must first be created […]

An open area of land on the city’s West Side is set for a major upgrade. A conceptual rendering of Asbury JAMS — an acronym for jobs, art, music and science —  has already won accolades from the New Jersey Chapter of The American Institute of Architects, with a Merit Award in the “unbuilt” category. The […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, All of the land east of Ocean Avenue in Asbury Park, our beaches and boardwalk,  is public land. In other words, the land belongs to all the people in Asbury Park. All public lands are held in trust for the American people by the federal, state, and local governments. The oceans belong to all […]

Several Asbury Park students were honored by the Asbury Park/Wall Elks Lodge No. 128 for their participation in the club’s Americanism contest. District students with special needs between the ages of nine and 14, were asked to color a poster, write an essay or record their thoughts on why they are proud to be an American, according […]

The Asbury Park Fire Department took delivery of a newly remounted Ladder Truck Monday. The rig is dedicated to the memory of famous E-Street Band tenor sax man Clarence Clemons, Jr., Firefighter Robert Pasquariello said. When the refurbished truck was delivered, Battalion Chief Gironda put in a call to Bruce Springsteen to see what he might like […]

Cowerks continues their monthly introductory workshops, offering more opportunities for entrepreneurs and creators to bring their ideas to life, according to a news release from the company. April’s workshops will teach students how to better market a crowdfunding campaing, and how to build an HTML or Drupal website. They will be held Saturday, April 26. […]

Kits that contained doses of the life-saving drug Naloxone were given away, gratis, at a training session in Asbury Park Wednesday night to about 20 area residents. Naloxone is a less expensive version of the anti-opioid drug Narcan. Both reverse the effects of opiates when administered to someone experiencing an overdose. The training session, held […]

Before the Bamboozle festival grew into the biggest music festival in the state, there was Skate and Surf. While it doesn’t appear Bamboozle will return to the shores of Asbury Park, or anywhere else, in the next-to-near future, founders of the event are making a bid to bring the Skate and Surf Festival back to […]

A local non-profit live theatre group will soon embark on its 26th season, this year operating out of a new location in Asbury Park. The Premier Theatre Company has signed a long-term lease with the local chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] and is the midst of making enhancements to the VFW building’s […]

Two Asbury Park teenagers have been accused beating a Brick Township resident to death while robbing him, according to court documents. A Monmouth County Grand Jury handed up an indictment Wednesday charging Spencer S. Young, 19, and Jahmir K. Bouie, 18, with second-degree robbery, first-degree felony murder, and first-degree murder. The charges stem from a July […]