The New Year brought a new set of city officials to municipal hall. A capacity crowd in council chambers Thursday witnessed John Moor sworn in as the city’s first directly elected mayor and his running mates on the Asbury Together ticket — Jessie Kendle, Amy Quinn, Yvonne Clayton and Joe Woerner — take oaths as […]

Members of the winning Asbury Together ticket are scheduled to be sworn in to service Thursday at noon. Mayor-elect John Moor (shown above, at far left) will be sworn in to a four-year term as the city’s first directly-elected mayor. The remaining council-elect members, incumbent Amy Quinn, Jessie “Coach K” Kendle, Joe Woerner, and Barbara […]

The election results from the Asbury Park municipal race are official as the Monmouth County Clerk’s Office has certified the results, according to the county board of elections office. All five members of the Asbury Together slate — incumbents Amy Quinn and John Moor along with newcomers Joe Woerner, Jessie “Coach K” Kendle and Barbara […]

Over a third of the city’s registered voters participated in the city’s first November municipal election, up from 26 percent total turnout in the May 2013 municipal election. A total 9,182 residents are registered to vote in the city and 3,421 of them — or 37.26 percent — cast at least one vote in the election, according to the […]

John Moor — a sitting councilman who ran on the Asbury Together ticket — will be over the required 50 percent threshold to win the mayor’s race outright without a run-off election, according to unofficial results provided by City Clerk Steven Kay and county election officials. With vote-by-mail ballots now counted, Moor has 1374 of the […]

The Monmouth County Board of Elections has disqualified 353 vote-by-mail [VBM] ballots in the Asbury Park election. The Board allowed 340 VBM ballots to be counted, which increased the lead of the Asbury Together ticket. There are still 161 provisional ballots that need to be counted. Asbury Together has already claimed victory in four of […]

The Asbury Together ticket claimed victory in four of the five council seats at stake in Tuesday’s election, which will give them a council majority. [UPDATE: With vote-by-mail ballots now counted, the Asbury Together slate has swept all five council seats, which includes Moor as Mayor. Click here for the updated story. Shown above are […]

John Moor of the Asbury Together ticket has received the most votes in the contest for Asbury Park Mayor, while his four running mates are the high vote-getters for the four council seats, according to unofficial results provided by City Clerk Steven Kay. [UPDATE: With vote-by-mail ballots now counted, the Asbury Together slate has swept […]

The Monmouth County Board of Elections on Monday began the tedious task of sifting through all of the Asbury Park vote-by-mail [VBM] ballots to determine which may be cast. At the end of day one, the board voided 26 of the first 38 ballots they examined which had been subject to a challenge by the […]

Members of the Asbury Together campaign have filed over 300 challenges to vote-by-mail [VBM] ballot applications with the Monmouth County Clerk of Elections that call into question whether members of the opposing A-Team ticket and the ticket’s campaign volunteers properly handled messenger ballot applications, according to an Asbury Together campaign release issued Thursday. Hundreds of […]