Recreational activities on Deal Lake has remained at a standstill ever since testing by the Monmouth County Health Dept showed the presence of cyanobacteria, a naturally-occurring photosynthetic bacteria more commonly known as blue green algae. “The traffic on Deal Lake is non existent,” said Brian Watkins, owner of Deal Lake Dock Co, located at the […]

The Deal Lake Commission Fall Cleanup will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, expanding into a collaborative effort to also rid Sunset and Wesley lakes of debris, Commissioner Don Brockel said. The event draws a host of area residents, Monmouth University students and faculty volunteers, who will be joined this year by not […]

The Asbury Park City Council unanimously approved a sports activity concession at Deal Lake during Wednesday night’s meeting. The approval makes way for Deal Lake Dock Company, a new venture by Marilyn McGarvin and her husband Brian Watkins. The couple will offer kayak, canoe, and paddle board rentals as well as guided fishing tours from […]

For kids, teens and some adults, a skateboard is much more than an opportunity to partake in an action sport filled with ollies, kickflips, and pivots. It can signify a culture or art form, and while for some it has grown into a profession, for many it’s simply a mode of transportation. Looking to share […]

The pruning along Third, Fourth, and Asbury avenues have city residents questioning the benefit of leaving behind trees with awkwardly shaped limbs that conjure up an Edward Scissor Hands abstract. “These trees are 100 years old and they are shade trees, meant to provide shade on the sidewalks and streets,” said 6-year resident Brian Watkins. […]

Meetings, this week, to find an alternative location for the Asbury Park Skateboard Foundation’s proposed project did not prove fruitful, according to a Thursday afternoon conversation with Mayor John Moor. Moor and City Manager Michael Capabianco held Tuesday meetings with Housing Authority and School District officials to determine whether property the two entities own could […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, If you read the headlines of last week’s triCityNews, you’d get a visual of some environmental folks on one side of a park and some angry skateboarders on the other, waiting for the referee’s whistle, before charging full steam at one another in some primitive “winner take all event”. That’s hardly […]

The Asbury Park Skateboard Foundation, led by resident Brian Watkins, received an unofficial nod Monday night to move forward with plans to construct a skateboard park within Sunset Park. The nonprofit, which formed in 2015, wants to build the skateboard park, at no cost to taxpayers, within the western portion of the park that borders […]