Seventy-five Knockout Rose bushes now line the northwest corner of Bangs and Main avenues, where overgrown shrubs once hid the century-old Asbury Park Post Office building from passers-by. About 20 members of the Asbury Park Environment and Shade Tree Commission [ESTC] planted the bushes Saturday in an effort that took less than an hour to […]

The New Jersey State Bar Association’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender [LGBT] Rights Section named Asbury Park’s Daniel Weiss this year’s winner of its Lifetime Service Achievement Award, accoording to a news release from the organization. Weiss, an immigration lawyer who helped form the section and served as an association trustee, will receive the award […]

For Asbury Park residents Daniel Weiss [shown above, at right] and John Grant [left], same-sex marriage rights are not just a matter of politics — they are a matter of life and death. The Asbury Park residents were married in Connecticut in 2010, and served as the lead plaintiffs in Lambda Legal’s lawsuit that argued barring same-sex […]

Editor, the Asbury Park Sun: People have asked me why I so passionately endorse the One Asbury city council ticket. Myra Campbell, John Moor, Joe Woerner, Talesha Crank and Amy Quinn embody the qualities that Asbury Park desperately needs in order to move past so many governing mistakes. The One Asbury ticket is motivated, engaged […]